A cigarette that could actually save lives

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A cigarette that could actually save lives

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ELECTRONIC cigarettes may be the greatest tool in the fight against lung cancer that the world has ever seen. They’re cheap, convenient and they’re helping smokers everywhere to quit.

And the best part about this health solution? It doesn’t involve government.

Demands for governments to identify and solve problems are a recipe for disaster. They lead to higher taxes and less freedom. A cure administered by the nanny state is worse than the disease.

Meanwhile, free markets are coming up with innovative ways to tackle some of our most deep-seated problems.

Take lung cancer. According to Cancer Australia, lung cancer was responsible for 8,114 deaths in Australia in 2011. Smoking increases the risk of cancer. The government response is regulation, taxes, advertising and sponsorship restrictions and bans.

A better response involves opening up markets and allowing individuals to make choices about their own lives.

There are a range of cigarette substitutes already on the market. Electronic cigarettes are the most prominent, and they’re currently taking the world by storm.

E-cigarettes are battery-powered nicotine vaporisers. They do not contain tobacco or produce smoke. E-cigarette users inhale vapour, which produces a similar effect to smoking without the health risks caused by the carcinogenic and toxins of combustible tobacco products.

The global e-cigarette market is worth around $2 billion. This is predicted to grow to $10 billion by 2020. Part of the success of this new product is that it is used as a device to help traditional cigarette smokers to quit tobacco.

It’s against the law to sell these products by claiming they have a therapeutic benefit. But the science is clear — e-cigarettes save lives.
An article published in August 2014 in the peer-reviewed Journal of Public Health concluded that “the use of [e-cigarettes] can reduce the number of cigarettes smoked and withdrawal symptoms …”
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In an article for BMC Medicine last year, Peter Hajek of the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine said: “although there is no doubt that smokers switching to electronic cigarettes substantially reduce the risk to their health, some tobacco control activists and health organisations discourage smokers from using [e-cigarettes] and lobby policy makers to reduce [e-cigarette] use by draconian regulation.”

E-cigarettes and reduced risk products should be seen for what they are — the latest in cutting-edge tobacco quitting devices.

It’s against the law to sell these products by claiming they have a therapeutic benefit. But the science is clear — e-cigarettes save lives.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...02367?sv=4fb477b140d0ffb8f5f6d2f1e09b0e25&utm
 
Yup these are pretty great, e-cigarettes helped me quit smoking but I still vape because it's very enjoyable.
Lowering nicotine levels gradually. Love em

And the flavors.. THE FLAVORS!! *drool*
 
Tha anti-government stance of this article is ridiculous... Of course I agree that e-cigs are effective to quit smoking real cigs, but government should definitely play a role to control the ingredients that are used in e-liquids. Some companies test their e-liquids for diacetyl and other harmful substances but they have no obligation to. In this case government intervention would certainly not be a «recipe for disaster».
 
cannot enjoy nicotine vaporizers. As much As I'd like too. They make the cig buzz feel so different and not as enjoyable. Not like I even like the buzz. I just like the act of smoking cigarettes.
 
It's hard to see how e cigs could be dangerous at all, but everybody thought Kent cigarettes, with their "micronite" filter which contained asbestos, were just the thing to make smoking harmless back in the 1950s.
 
Such a worthwhile point banana king. I'm fairly certain there is a similar issue with e cigs (manufacturing processes, battery quality, juice ingredients, material, etc. etc.), but that doesn't mean they're more dangerous than cigarettes either (I'm fairly convinced by my own experiences that cigs are worse for me than vaporizing).
 
we thought that cigarettes weren't harmful a long time. i think electronic cigarettes are new. the risks involved aren't fully understood. expect people making money off of these devices will exaggerate safety and downplay risks the same way big tobacco did in the past.

i used electronic cigarettes over the course of one year. i didn't use nicotine in the solution because of the chemicals addictive properties. i used 20% glycerine and 80% distilled water. The vapor reduced the symptoms of chronic cold induced sinus infections when they were to bad. i also enjoyed the activity of producing vapor via this method.

after i had been doing that awhile i noticed on occasion the smoke taste changed. the occasional abnormal taste was foul and brunt. this usually occurred towards the end of the tank or during heavy drags. i thought this was odd because the only ingredients were pure glycerine and pure water. i did some research and learned the toxic chemical acrolein is produced if glycerine is heated sufficiently. in fact acrolein is commercially produced from heating glycerine. Wikipedia lists the decomposition temperature of glycerine as 280C and the boiling point as 290C. pure glycerine decomposes into acrolein bellow its vaporization temperature. the argument supporting glycerines safety is that if you add pure H2O the boiling point of the solution decreases. this is true, but in the real world temperatures over 280C are achieved in electronic cigarettes during normal use. i infer this from the burnt acrid taste i occasionally experienced vaping while using my solution of pure glycerine and pure H20 in the tank.

with nicotine and other additives in e-juice i doubt you could distinguish the occasional acrid taste i noticed. after researching the subject i decided intentionally heating and inhaling something (glycerine) known to decompose into something very toxic (acrolein) in the presence of heat was risky. i also looked at the history of cigarettes and how confident people were in their safety at first compared with how harmful they are now considered. electronic cigarettes could be safer than normal cigarettes if the amount of nicotine is equivalent. based on history i decided, regardless of the e-juice, there wasn't sufficient evidence supporting electronic cigarettes safety. i use neither electronic cigarettes nor real cigarettes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycerine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrolein
 
Also very well said ggb. I couldn't agree more with you - primarily that if nothing else e cig type vaporizers are new enough that we know rather little about them. I have found VG preferable over PG, but I feel better about using a mixture. Next to the issues of inherent problems with VG or PG or flavors (or nicotine), I have always been bothered by the idea that the wick dries out and gets heated/melts. In the case of cotton (which I lean much more heavily on) I don't like the idea of singing it and inhaling burnt cotton+who knows what else. And even with wicks that don't burn, like silica or eco wool, the idea of inhaling a dry burn off that isn't any better (actually imho it's worse).

I do like the HR side of e cigs though. For one, I've noticed my health improve since I stopped smoking and started vaping. But I was smoking way too much, and so I really needed to get that shit in order. It's funny, though I vape a lot less than I used to smoke (time spent vaping/nicotine concentration in juice compared to time spent smoking and nicotine concentration in cigs), I've noticed that the act of vaping is a lot easier for me to control than smoking was. Smoking a cigarette made me fiend for another cigarette, whereas vaping almost makes me want to wait a while before I vape again. Iono..

Sorry for the little diversion...
 
Also very well said ggb. I couldn't agree more with you - primarily that if nothing else e cig type vaporizers are new enough that we know rather little about them. I have found VG preferable over PG, but I feel better about using a mixture. Next to the issues of inherent problems with VG or PG or flavors (or nicotine), I have always been bothered by the idea that the wick dries out and gets heated/melts. In the case of cotton (which I lean much more heavily on) I don't like the idea of singing it and inhaling burnt cotton+who knows what else. And even with wicks that don't burn, like silica or eco wool, the idea of inhaling a dry burn off that isn't any better (actually imho it's worse).

I do like the HR side of e cigs though. For one, I've noticed my health improve since I stopped smoking and started vaping. But I was smoking way too much, and so I really needed to get that shit in order. It's funny, though I vape a lot less than I used to smoke (time spent vaping/nicotine concentration in juice compared to time spent smoking and nicotine concentration in cigs), I've noticed that the act of vaping is a lot easier for me to control than smoking was. Smoking a cigarette made me fiend for another cigarette, whereas vaping almost makes me want to wait a while before I vape again. Iono..

Sorry for the little diversion...
 
The ecig is better for you than smoking, and worse for you than quitting which is of course anecdotal evidence, since this is the vast majority of ecig knowledge at this time. I smoked 12 years and now I only vape and I feel absolutely amazing. I can breathe again. I forgot how nice it was to get oxygen. I also agree the FDA should keep their hands out of it (and everything else). Independent scientists' research does the same thing in a vastly less corrupt manner.
 
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