E-cigarette safety: the facts explained (short)
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- Опубліковано 30 жов 2017
- Experts take a look at the evidence on some of the issues that surround the use of e-cigarettes - it turns out there is not as much debate as we thought.
This is a shortened version of the second of five NCSCT films for the public, part-funded by Public Health England and produced in association with the New Nicotine Alliance.
As a smoker of 25yrs who stopped overnight due to vaping I can't thankyou enuf for publishing facts not fear over e-cigs.. Too many people who don't know the facts are spouting rubbish in the media
This is something that should run as an ad in the TV. It's disheartening to see the scaremongering in the media.
I completely agree with this.
Someone needs to show this to the FDA till it's bored into their skulls......
Thanks to those who made this and thanks also to the Australian Tobacco Harm Reduction Association for embedding it on their site. As a smoker for 35 years, vaping appears as a godsend. And pressure should be brought to bear on the intransigent Queensland government, which needlessly makes the transition from cigarettes to vaping harder.
It's refreshing to see such clarity in the 'debate' about vaping. So much of it seems to be driven by prejudice and ideology. Hopefully this will help people to see the benefits of switching from smoking to vaping and put the scaremongering into context.
Great video - hopefully it will reassure many thinking of making the switch.
Switch, but don't start vaping otherwise. I'm seeing a lot of young people vaping.
Great informative and clear message.
E cigs are the best smoking cessation device ever invented. I tried all the pills hynotism accupunture patches and the rest. After starting on e cigs I feel great
People vaping are inhaling significant amounts of nicotine, it would be helpful to suggest what is a maximum safe level of (dose of) nicotine might be just as there are recommendations with alcohol and other active substances considering that nicotine is in itself a poison..
F Azar its called self titration, and you'll get fed up of nicotine way before any poison effects
Also its not significant. Nicotine makes up between 0.6% & 2% of the mixture.
If that much - I vape at 0.3%, which is considered normal among longer term vapers, and even 0.15% is becoming commercially available (and of course, there are 0% mixtures available).
2% is the legal maximum for sale but most suppliers take it down to 1.8% to give a safety margin. You'd feel too sick to continue vaping long before you could absorb a dangerous quantity.
To carry a significant risk of harm, you'd have to be dealing in strengths of at least 20% upwards. 10% is considered a normal concentration for DIY mixers in the United States, and there have been zero reported incidents of harm through over-exposure.
I have a personal stock of 7.2% for my mixing, stored in a separate freezer from food, and obtained prior to the ill-advised TPD restriction (which people very quickly found ways to work around anyway).
I also still maintain that the TOBACCO products directive, due to it's name, can ONLY apply to TOBACCO products, which does not include most nicotine used in vaping. If it applied to ALL nicotine containing products, the potato, tomato, and aubergine producers need to put their house in order as well!
Vaping has broken a 40 year smoking habit for me, and I will do anything (irrespective of legality) to be able to keep doing it, whatever stupid restrictions may be attempted. Science is on our side, only idiots and those who value profit over lives (but I repeat myself) are against it.
The big tobacco companies should be charged with the mass murder they have committed for profit, and their entire assets seized and handed to the NHS for use in assisting the victims of those companies. They knew for decades that they were selling death, yet continued to do it. Governments should also be held liable for aiding and abetting, as they had the power to stop it, but didn't - it would cost more in pensions if people lived longer, and they were handsomely paid off by the big tobacco companies (in the form of taxation) for continuing to allow it.
Hush money is heavily frowned on in law, yet that is EXACTLY what it was.
Now we have a product which has ten times the combined success rate of all others combined in assisting smokers to quit - and they are restricting it? The insanity continues.
That doesn't make sense as people are different. It's a bit like saying a person will get drunk after 3 pints. Some people can drink a lot more than that and be perfectly fine if they have built up a tolerance to it. Quit smoking thanks to vaping. It's been nothing but a godsend for me and I recommend it to anyone who wants to quit. I started with 18mg nicotine in my e liquids (smoked about 20-25 A day). Then worked my way down to 3mg a couple of weeks ago. Don't be afraid...vaping was way more effective for me than patches or gum.
I'd love to follow the money on the vape fear-mongering here in the U.S. Would not be surprised if there are some Big Tobacco dollars keeping this narrative alive. Drug dealers hate when they lose business and will sully the competition and/or eliminate them when profits are threatened...
Public service being done. Hope this gets shared widely, real fact from real experts.
We should be using the terms "relative risk" and "reduced harm", "harm reduction" etc rather than "safety". This is a mistake that goes back to the early days of vaping when claims for safety or vapour being harmless were absolutely smashed by vaping opponents. It weakens the whole argument for harm reduction and vaping and if we're interested in the real truth I think we have to be uncompromising when it comes to telling it.
Of course this is coming from an Australian advocate (me) in a political climate where we are still battling to have nicotine available to consumers in Australia at all. I know one of the people interviewed used the word "safety" and that can't be helped and it was clear that the relative safety to tobacco smoke was implied.
The movie titling and sub titles are the real issue here.
Apart from that I think it's brilliant piece to show skeptics or those sitting on the fence, and it's great to see such compelling tools being added to the debate.
What's the word on e-cigs and Sars-cov-2?
Can anyone share this with the FDA????
Since health care is publically funded in the UK that is why they have come out with the real facts which will lower the burden on the public exchequer by promoting good health. Not so in the US where health are is a huge business. In poor countries like India, the government holds a majority stake in the largest tobacco company. And they have completely banned e cigarettes. Figure out the math!
I vape now at zero % nic and have come to realize that it was not nicotine I was addicted too when I smoked for 40 years.I was addicted to the burning tar and the chemicals it delivered.