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- Study Finds That Teens Who Use E-cigarettes Are More Than Twice As Likely As Non-using Teens To Start Smoking Tobacco Products
image: usnews.comTeens who use electronic cigarettes may be more than twice as likely to start smoking tobacco than those who have never used the devices, according to a study at the University of Southern California. ?Recreational e-cigarette use is...
- Even Nicotine-free Electronic Cigarettes Can Damage Lungs; Parents Urged To Warn Teens About Dangers Of E-cig Smoking
Kentucky has one of the nation's highest smoking rates, but electronic cigarettes, or e-cigs, are becoming more popular. These battery-powered vaporizers produce a vapor that usually does not contain nicotine. Some have claimed that e-cigs...
- Study Finds Electronic Cigarettes Help People Stop Smoking
A study has found that electronic cigarettes help people cut back on their use of tobacco, Christopher Ingraham reports for The Washington Post. The finding was part of a study published in the International Journal of Environmental...
- Fayette County Board Of Health Wants To Regulate Electronic Cigarettes, Raising Some Questions
The Lexington-Fayette County Board of Health is discussing ways to restrict the use of electronic cigarettes in public places and strategies to inform people about their potential dangers, Mary Meehan writes for the Lexington Herald-Leader. This continues...
- Teen Use Of E-cigarettes Doubles In Past Year But May Equal Nicotine Patches In Helping Smokers To Quit Or Cut Back
E-cigarettes use battery-operated products that turn nicotine and other chemicals into vapor to be inhaled by the user.Electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes, may actually benefit smokers who want to quit by helping them smoke fewer cigarettes and doing...
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Can e-cigarettes help you quit smoking? That's unproven
The notion that electronic cigarettes can help smokers cut back or quit smoking is uproven, says an article in the June issue of Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, the scientific journal of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. The article contradicts British research suggesting that e-cigarettes could play a positive role in reducing smoking rates for people who try to quit smoking without the aid of prescription medication or professional support.
Manufactures of e-cigarettes say that progressively adding smaller doses of nicotine to the e-cigarette will help smokers quit smoking. But the authors say this theory hasn't been proven and no evidence supports the claims. "Despite the apparent optimism surrounding e-cigarettes and their purported therapeutic role in smoking cessation, there just simply is not enough evidence to suggest that consumers should use e-cigarettes for this purpose," lead author Andrew Nickels says.
Nickels examined the risks of e-cigarettes, including the ongoing dependence on nicotine and dual use of e-cigarettes and regular cigarettes. Dual use is common, with people using e-cigarettes in public and smoking regular cigarettes at home. The researchers found that this behavior continues to expose children and asthma sufferers in the household to secondhand smoke. "It also promotes ongoing nicotine dependence,? says co-author Chitra Dinakar.
Nicotine is an addictive neurotoxin, and the increased use of e-cigarettes has caused an increase in calls to poison centers. The most common adverse health effects from e-cigarettes are nausea and eye irritation, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. More than half the calls involved children under 5.
Because e-cigarettes are fairly new, the article says there could be other long-term health complications that have yet to be discovered. Results of long-term exposure to such substances are unknown.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has proposed a rule that will allow it to regulate e-cigarettes. In April, Gov. Steve Beshear signed into law Senate Bill 109, which prohibits the sale of e-cigarettes to minors in Kentucky.
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Nickels examined the risks of e-cigarettes, including the ongoing dependence on nicotine and dual use of e-cigarettes and regular cigarettes. Dual use is common, with people using e-cigarettes in public and smoking regular cigarettes at home. The researchers found that this behavior continues to expose children and asthma sufferers in the household to secondhand smoke. "It also promotes ongoing nicotine dependence,? says co-author Chitra Dinakar.
Nicotine is an addictive neurotoxin, and the increased use of e-cigarettes has caused an increase in calls to poison centers. The most common adverse health effects from e-cigarettes are nausea and eye irritation, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. More than half the calls involved children under 5.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has proposed a rule that will allow it to regulate e-cigarettes. In April, Gov. Steve Beshear signed into law Senate Bill 109, which prohibits the sale of e-cigarettes to minors in Kentucky.
- Study Finds That Teens Who Use E-cigarettes Are More Than Twice As Likely As Non-using Teens To Start Smoking Tobacco Products
image: usnews.comTeens who use electronic cigarettes may be more than twice as likely to start smoking tobacco than those who have never used the devices, according to a study at the University of Southern California. ?Recreational e-cigarette use is...
- Even Nicotine-free Electronic Cigarettes Can Damage Lungs; Parents Urged To Warn Teens About Dangers Of E-cig Smoking
Kentucky has one of the nation's highest smoking rates, but electronic cigarettes, or e-cigs, are becoming more popular. These battery-powered vaporizers produce a vapor that usually does not contain nicotine. Some have claimed that e-cigs...
- Study Finds Electronic Cigarettes Help People Stop Smoking
A study has found that electronic cigarettes help people cut back on their use of tobacco, Christopher Ingraham reports for The Washington Post. The finding was part of a study published in the International Journal of Environmental...
- Fayette County Board Of Health Wants To Regulate Electronic Cigarettes, Raising Some Questions
The Lexington-Fayette County Board of Health is discussing ways to restrict the use of electronic cigarettes in public places and strategies to inform people about their potential dangers, Mary Meehan writes for the Lexington Herald-Leader. This continues...
- Teen Use Of E-cigarettes Doubles In Past Year But May Equal Nicotine Patches In Helping Smokers To Quit Or Cut Back
E-cigarettes use battery-operated products that turn nicotine and other chemicals into vapor to be inhaled by the user.Electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes, may actually benefit smokers who want to quit by helping them smoke fewer cigarettes and doing...