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Electronic Cigarettes Cause Cancer?
Texas – Electronic cigarettes are helping people kick their smoking habit, but do they still cause cancer? The FDA hasn’t quite decided on that, but e-cigarette salesman Andy McDowell says the electronic smokes are still the better alternative to other products designed to help smokers quit. However, the FDA won’t approve of e-cigarettes yet because [...]
Users believe electronic cigarettes can help you quit
Electronic cigarettes, or ‘E-cigarettes’, are used mainly to quit smoking, and may be useful for this purpose. Researchers writing in theopen access journal BMC Public Health polled 81 users and former users of the devices, finding that although the majority was happy with them, several concerns remain unaddressed. Jean-François Etter, from the University of Geneva, [...]
E-cigarettes can help kick the butt
Nicotine delivered via an e-cigarette can help curb the urge to smoke, says new research. E-cigarettes are electronic nicotine delivery devices that resemble cigarettes but do not use tobacco. They release a small dose of nicotine with each puff. “The e-cigarettes that we tested appeared to be as effective as a standard nicotine replacement therapy [...]
Illinois Trying To Snuff Out E-Cigarettes
Chicago – The state just won’t butt out. Illinois has already banned smoking in public places, now state lawmakers want to go after a device marketed as a healthy alternative to cigarettes, E-cigarettes. E-cigarettes deliver all the cigarette buzz with none of the cigarette smoke. And the staff at Ash’s Smoke Chop in Chicago’s Andersonville [...]
Wants lawmakers to enact law to halt sales to minors?
CONCORD, N.H. — Electronic cigarettes are readily available at mall kiosks and the Internet, come in flavors like tobacco, strawberry, chocolate, and vanilla, and replace smoking with “vaping.’’ And though they deliver a dose of nicotine steam, they can still be legally sold to and used by minors. Mara Zrzavy, a 16-year-old ConVal Regional High [...]
Ban the e-cigarettes Before they Become a Trend Among Teenagers
The concept of e-cigarettes was initiated to help people who intend to quit smoking. For this purpose, the e-cigarettes have been made readily available on internet with tobacco, strawberry, chocolate, and vanilla flavors and are made accessibly legal for the minors as well. But teenagers of New Hampshire are opposing the technological cigarette smoking as [...]
E-Cigarettes Fail at Nicotine Delivery, No Better Than Unlit Cigarette
Last year we wrote on the health risks associated with electronic cigarettes, commonly known as “e-cigarettes”. The devices have been billed as “healthy living” products and as a tool to help smokers quit their addiction. Advocates say that since electronic cigarettes simply give smokers a vapor with nicotine and no burned chemicals, that they are [...]
Electronic cigarettes: Do we know enough?
20th January 2010 — With smokers banned from lighting up in public places and left shivering outside pubs and offices, the interest in alternative ways to get a nicotine fix has boomed. One of these is the “electronic cigarette”, or e-cigarette. However, two researchers are asking: do we know enough about this method of nicotine [...]
Calif AG sues e-cigarette maker, says cigarettes unsafe
SAN FRANCISCO — California’s top cop is seeking to halt the sale of one company’s electronic cigarettes in the state, saying they contain dangerous chemicals and are being marketed to children. State Attorney General Jerry Brown filed suit Wednesday in Alameda County Superior Court against Florida-based Smoking Everywhere Inc., a leading manufacturer of e-cigarettes. Brown [...]
FDA Warned About the Dangers of Banning the E Cigarette
ST. LOUIS, MO, November 24, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ — With top public health officials showing support for the now infamous product and taking an open stand against the FDA, could the agency lose even more credibility and need restructuring to get in line with the real needs of the population? The FDA and special interest groups [...]
E-Cigarettes May Prevent Pneumonia, Influenza, and Other Respiratory Diseases
The ingredients in most electronic cigarette cartridges manufactured today include propylene glycol, nicotine, and a flavoring. The 1942 study by Dr. Oswald Hope Robertson of the University of Chicago’s Billings Hospital showed that Propylene glycol, the most prevalent ingredient in electronic cigarette cartridges, was found to possibly prevent pneumonia, influenza, and other respiratory diseases when [...]
E-Cigarettes Battle Continues
PHOENIX – Despite concerns by public health officials as to their safety, electronic cigarettes are gaining ground in the United States, USA Today reports. The battery-powered device uses nicotine, flavoring and chemicals in a cartridge, which turns the nicotine into a vapor to be inhaled by the user. State and local lawmakers are considering ways [...]
E-Cigarette: Anti-Tobacco Advocates’ Dream Come True?
Now that ASH UK has all but jumped on board along with many top public health officials, it looks as though the e-cigarette is gaining more and more public support to advance the use and widespread use of the e cigarette. Smokers are hailing them as the best alternative to ever hit the market that [...]
Food and Drug Administration Bans e-cigarettes in America
Boston – It is being reported that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have banned the sale of electronic cigarettes in America. Electronic cigarettes look similar to a regular ciggy, but actually are quite different operating with a battery and a vaporless odor, in place of a lighter and dangerous omitted toxins. The electronic cigarettes [...]
