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Are E-cigs Helpful or Harmful To Your Health?

Are E-cigs Helpful or Harmful To Your Health?

<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">The use of e-cigarettes has become so prevalent in the past few years&comma; that it’s highly probable you or someone you know is a so-called &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;vaper”&period; And if not&comma; you’ll likely have seen people puffing on the futuristic devices&comma; which resemble oversized plastic-looking cigarettes&comma; on the street&comma; in restaurants&comma; and in bars&period; Even in the workplace&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Many people are using them to kick their tobacco habit completely or cut down their cigarette intake&comma; but there has already been much debate worldwide as to whether e-cigs are a safe alternative to cigarettes or a good cessation device&period; The EU recently So what exactly is everyone worried about&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">The Chemicals<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">E-cigarettes work my vaporising a solution&comma; or &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;e-liquid”&comma; that normally contains nicotine&comma; solvents and flavouring&period; This vapour is inhaled giving users a sensation similar to that of smoking a cigarette&comma; except that the vapour&comma; it is claimed&comma; is mostly made up of harmless water&period; However&comma; among the chemicals used are PEG400 &lpar;used in anti-freeze&rpar;&comma; propylene glycol &lpar;used in smoke machines&rpar; and glycerin&semi; it is not clear what effect these chemicals have on the body when atomised and inhaled on a regular basis&period; E-cig vapour has been found to contain harmful nitrosamines and carcinogens&comma; but often at significantly lower levels than tobacco smoke&period; If you are not sure then always start with a kit such as the Cyclone Ego Cig&comma; these are the perfect choice as a quitting tool&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10997" alt&equals;"Are E-cigs Helpful or Harmful To Your Health&quest;" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;medusamagazine&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;03&sol;Are-E-cigs-Helpful-or-Harmful-To-Your-Health&period;jpg" width&equals;"500" height&equals;"500" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Their Regulation<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">The EU has recently legislated on the sale of e-cigarettes&comma; including a 2016 ban on advertising and the addition of warning labels&period; Previously&comma; there was very little in the way of regulation &&num;8211&semi; the sale of e-cigarettes was only governed by Trading Standards&period; According to a letter the organisation submitted to the Department of Health along with LACORS &lpar;Local Authorities Coordinators of Regulatory Services&rpar; and CIEH &lpar;The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health&rpar;&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;electronic battery powered vaporising e-cigarettes are not caught by the definition of &OpenCurlyQuote;smoking’ in the Health Act 2006&period; The definition of tobacco in the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 &lpar;as amended&rpar; does not extend to include e-cigarettes&comma; nor are these devices captured by any of the Consumer Protection legislation which control the sale&comma; promotion&comma; advertising and labelling of tobacco products”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Do They Actually Work&quest;<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Many users would attest that they do&comma; but others would say that they have swapped one nicotine habit for another&comma; and that all the issues with addiction are still there&period; And nicotine is not entirely harmless&comma; having as it does many physiological effects&comma; including increasing adrenalin production&period; There was talk of the NHS regulating them as medicine to help smokers quit&comma; but there isn’t a great deal of evidence that e-cig are much better cessation device than traditional methods&period; In a study published in the US&comma; e-cigs were roughly as effective as nicotine patches and slighter better than placebo e-cigarettes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">The upshot of all this is that we don’t really know how harmful e-cigarettes are&comma; mainly because no long-term peer-reviewed studies have been done&period; As the number of vapers grow and the longer they smoke for&comma; it will become easier to analyse the medical impact of these devices&period; Until then it’s probably better to use more-studied methods or give up the cigarettes without cessation devices&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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