Sales of electronic cigarettes are still booming, with smoking bans in place in many countries. Electronic cigarettes are advertised by many companies as a tobacco replacement device meant to emulate the taste and feeling of smoking a real cigarette by substituting the smoke with a nicotine vapour which is inhaled.
The Food and Drug Administration in the USA has now warned users of the electronic cigarettes that many of the devices contain carcinogens and other toxic chemicals such as diethylene glycol, which is used in antifreeze.
Some health officials have expressed concern that electronic cigarettes will be readily acquired by young people even with an 18-only sale restriction in place in many countries. Unlike tobacco cigarettes, there is no current ruling that electronic cigarette packaging must contain a health warning against them.
Many scientists have compared the two products and concluded that the electronic cigarette is still safer than a tobacco cigarette as it contains a lot less carcinogens found in tobacco cigarettes.
“Electronic cigarettes are allowed on the marketplace without being subjected to the comprehensive testing required of medicinal products,” said Deborah Arnott, director of Action on Smoking and Health (ASH). “We would recommend that anyone trying to quit should use medicinal nicotine products such as patches, gum or the inhalator, which have been tested and found to be both safe and effective, rather than electronic cigarettes.”
She also concluded that electronic cigarettes are still less harmful than tobacco cigarettes, “Cigarettes contain thousands of different chemicals, many of which are carcinogenic and are particularly dangerous when burnt, and kill half all long-term smokers,”
The FDA has been trying to stop many shipments of electronic cigarettes since many brands have not been tested and the device is still not subject to FDA approval. They have been challenged on this by electronic cigarette companies in the US and the case is still ongoing.
What makes tobacco cigarettes and better than an electronic cig?Over 4000 different toxins, poisons & carcinogens thats found in a burning tobacco that kills over 400,000 people just in the US, Not counting worldwide. Compared to an electronic cig which is mainly made of 96-99 % H20 (water) % 1-3 % nicotine, which is NOT harmful since your only vaporing and not smoking. My research shows that NO deaths have been reported withing this 5 years of the making of any Electronic Cigs! But we know & understand that the tobacco & pharmaceutical companies are over a 100 billion dollar industry a year & the FDA is being fairly treated from this industries by not allowing for any competitions being able to compete with well established billion dollar companies,so for this reason this Industries feed the FDA so it will do everything within it’s powers to stop & regulate such premature markets before it expands… I have been a tobacco smoker myself for a long time & when I was first introduced to an electronic cig, I thought this device is either going to overcome my habit of tobacco smoking or it’s gonna stop me for good. Well I’m here to say that it has done it’s job pretty impressively by making me quit smoking for good! Now I choose Vaping with an electronic cig, instead inhaling poison, toxic and & carcinogens into my lungs. So please think twice before you ignite another tobacco cigarette, instead choose a better alternative for you & for others! I choose an Electronic Cig.
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