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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 School student [...]
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 they [...]
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 [...]
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 delivery?
E-cigarettes [...]
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 says the [...]
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 have [...]
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 to [...]
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 counters [...]
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 come in [...]
Everybody Hates E-Cigarettes
PHILIP Horne, owner of E-Smokey Treats, pulls what looks like a ballpoint pen out of a jar on his coffee table and takes off the cap, revealing a red LED light where the pen point should be. He puts the other end up to his mouth and takes a drag. The light glows and Horne [...]
How safe are e-cigarettes?
Tonya Moraffah takes a deep drag on her cigarette, feels the soothing surge of nicotine and explains what extinguished her 30-year, pack-a-day smoking habit.
Every evening, she plugs her battery-operated electronic cigarette into a charger. She no longer carries a lighter or sucks breath mints all day in the office.
“I call myself a non-smoker,” says [...]
Can electronic cigarettes help smokers quit smoking?
All smokers will be intrigued by the advertisements promising them they can smoke anywhere, as those hanging next to cigarette packs at petrol stations in Cairo do. Featuring a woman wearing dark lipstick and puffing what appears to be smoke, after further enquiry it turns out that the “smoke” is not regular cigarette smoke. A [...]
Are electronic cigarettes a safer alternative?
They’re called electronic cigarettes, and manufacturers claim smokers can get a nicotine fix without the harmful agents that typically cause cancer.
Monday, we spoke with smokers and a doctor about the device.
It’s a bad habit, but one e-cigarette smoker Jon Beeles feels better about now that he’s bypassing the tar and smoke.
“Eventually I knew I [...]
