Debate about the safety of electronic cigarettes has continued since the product was first sold. Much of the information tossed about is factually incorrect but that hasn’t stopped big tobacco and big pharma from spreading the rumors.
A trade associate was recently formed to represent the interests of electronic cigarette suppliers and to refute the misinformation about the safety of e-cigarettes. Tobacco companies have issued warnings about e-cigs with a clear intention of eliminating the competition. High dollar lobbyists pushed the tobacco and pharma agenda with pressure on the FDA until that government agency conducted a limited test that was scientifically invalid. Using the unproven conclusions of the testing, the FDA issued several statements about potential health problems that might be associated with e-cigs. The handpicked small sample of e-cigs tested by the FDA had shown trace amounts of a harmful chemical in some of the products tested.
The FDA did not conduct followup testing or test to see if the same chemical was present in tobacco product. Although the statements made by the FDA were not factually incorrect they were also not scientifically proven but were conclusions based on a flawed example.
E-cigarettes contain only twenty ingredients. When the buying public asks “are electronic cigarettes safe” it seems best to point out that tobacco cigarettes contain 599 ingredients that produce over 4000 chemical compounds and additives when burned. Although claims are made by tobacco companies that cigarette additives have been approved by the FDA that is not quite the true picture. Those food additives were tested for ingestion as a food product. They have not been tests for chemical compounds that are created when the additives are burned. The high heat of burning can change the chemical elements of some products.
Poor nicotine is guilty by association with tobacco. Tobacco smoke is thought to lower the immune system in some smokers leaving them open to more colds and infections. We know for a fact that smoking tobacco causes cancers of the mouth, throat and lungs and increases risk of heart disease in smokers. These health problems are directly attributed to the tars and noxious gases of burning cigarettes inhaled by the smoker.
The properties of nicotine itself to not promote cancer in healthy tissue and nicotine has no mutagenic properties when separated from tobacco. There is no evidence that long term use of nicotine is detrimental to health. Nicotine is the reason we become addicted to tobacco. It is the fix we want when we light a cigarette yet it is not nicotine that damages our health.
You can buy nicotine stop smoking patches and gums at your local Walmart. Initially, the patches were only available with a doctor’s prescription but years of wide usage with negligible side effects resulted in nicotine replacement products being freely available..
The best e-cigs deliver a measured dose of nicotine to the e-smoker. Nicotine is provided in a safe form that soothes the smoker’s craving without the risks of smoking tobacco. The Royal College of Physicians stated they do not suspect adverse health effects will result from the long term use of nicotine.
Mary Kay Rivers is an expert in the field of electronic cigarettes. Her articles about e-cigarettes and how they work or on choosing the best e-cigarette are very famous.
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