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Vaping Blocks Smoking

June 19, 2016 By Carol Harper

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UK declared vaping 95% less harmful than smoking.

The UK Centre for Substance Use Research concluded a new study on the role played by e-cigarettes in reducing smoking.

The researchers focused on the young population and interviewed people with ages between 16 and 25 years old from England and Scotland. Participants were either smokers, non-smokers, or individuals who were trying to quit.

The majority of respondents said that vaping reduced the possibility of using traditional cigarettes. The youngsters saw vaping as entirely different from smoking and had an adverse opinion on the combustible tobacco use.

The Smoking Alternative

The general view is that more and more people are turning away from cigarettes and take up electronic nicotine inhalation.

All the participants in the study viewed smoking as harmful and saw the e-cigarette as an alternative to the bad habit. They were also convinced that more and more smokers will start to use e-cigarettes.

One of the respondents said that people who are now vaping are smokers who wanted to quit. The reverse is not that common; a person would not be less drawn to vaping because it considers it to be cool.

The Vaping Dilemma

Even though all participants were convinced that tobacco use has adverse effects on health, the researchers noticed confusion among the respondents when it came to the difference between vaping and smoking, and to what extent are the e-cigarettes bad for health.

A part of the people that were interviewed said that they knew from the media that e-cigarettes may be harmful, and thus they were reluctant in using them.

In England, the official institution for public health already declared vaping 95% less harmful than combustible tobacco.

The only uncertainty seems to lie in the long-term effects of e-cigarettes. However, the scientists draw attention to the fact that the dangers of smoking were discovered only after 40 years. Therefore, no one can know what else would come up on vaping.

The incertitude surrounding the dangers of electronic smoking and its apparent lack of adverse effects on health makes young people not to be so open to quitting.

As there is no evidence that the long-term use of e-cigarettes do not harm the organism just as bad as smoking does, young people are not motivated enough to change their habits.

The main conclusion of the study was that young people who took up vaping were already smoking. Using an electronic cigarette tends not to be an attraction in itself, but a transition step for individuals who want to quit smoking or to control the existing habit.

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Filed Under: Health Tagged With: e-cigarettes, smoking, smoking in young people, teenagers, Tobacco, UK Centre for Substance Use Research, vaping, Vaping Blocks Smoking

Study Reveals, ‘Minors’ Can Easily Buy E-cigarettes Online

March 3, 2015 By Carol Harper

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In a study analyzing compliance with North Carolina’s electronic cigarette age-verification law, scientists have observed that minors are easily able to circumvent legislation and purchase electronic cigarettes from retailers through the Internet.

“Even despite state laws like North Carolina’s obliging age confirmation, most vendors keep on failing to confirm age as per the law, underscoring the need for vigilant enforcement,” said buy the authors of the study, published in JAMA Pediatrics journal.

Sales of e-cigarettes have been continually on the ascent since they first entered the US market in 2007. By 2013, it had turned into a $2 billion-a-year industry and experts foresee sales could reach $10 billion-a-year by 2017.

As per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), rates of e-cigarette use among youngsters are likewise increasing quickly, twofold from 2011 to 2012. The CDC report that in 2013, more than a quarter of a million high school students had never smoked ordinary cigarettes yet had utilized e-cigarettes.

E-cigarettes are often depicted as a more secure option to smoking traditional cigarettes, in spite of the fact that groups like the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Mayo Clinic are careful about their nicotine substance and links with potentially cancer-causing substances.

At present, 41 states ban the sale of e-cigarettes to minors, including North Carolina. As per the study authors, though, further research has yet to be carried out to analyze age confirmation among Internet retailers that offer e-cigarettes.

For this study, Rebecca S. Williams of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and associates set out to analyze how often online sellers consented to North Carolina’s age-verification law.

‘E-cigarette vendors online operate in a regulatory vacuum’

The researchers’ selected 11 nonsmoking minors matured 14-17 to make e-cigarette purchases online with a credit card while under supervision. The minors made their buy attempt from computers at the project’s offices.

Almost 98 Internet e-cigarette vendors were targeted by the study. The minors effectively ordered e-cigarettes from 75 of these vendors and of the unsuccessful orders, just five failed because of age verification. As per the authors, this implied that 93.7 percent of the e-cigarette merchants researched failed to accurately confirm their clients’ ages.

Besides this finding, the e-cigarette packages were conveyed by shipping companies that all failed to verify the ages of the buyers upon delivery, with 95% of orders simply left at the door. The majority of the shipping companies concerned do not dispatch cigarettes to purchasers, as indicated by company policy and federal regulation.

According to the study findings, none of the online e-cigarette sellers followed North Carolina’s e-cigarette age-verification law.

“Lacking federal regulation, youth e-cigarette use has increased and e-cigarette vendors’ online work in a regulatory vacuum, utilizing few, if any, efforts to avoid sales to minors,” they wrote.

The results of this study will be of concern to those who are worried about the influence of e-cigarettes. The CDC also report that among nonsmoking youth who have ever used e-cigarettes, 43.9% say they “have intentions” to smoke conventional cigarettes, compared with 21.5% who have never used an e-cigarette.

“Federal law should require and enforce careful age verification for all e-cigarette sales as with the federal PACT (Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking) Act’s requirements for age verification in Internet cigarette sales,” study authors said.

Lately, Medical News Today reported on a study recommending that the introduction of new regulations that could modify the content of cigarettes is unlikely to significantly affect the current demand for illicit tobacco.

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: age-verification law, CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, e-cigarettes, FDA, internet, JAMA Pediatrics journal., Mayo Clinic, Medical News Today, online, PACT, Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking, Rebecca S. Williams

NY Police: A Child Dies After Swallowing Liquid Nicotine

December 14, 2014 By June Harris

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A 1-year-old kid in Fort Plain, New York, has died after police said he ingested liquid nicotine. Police officials are calling it a ‘tragic accident’.

Police were called to a home Tuesday evening, where the kid was found inert. He died after 2 hours of swallowing the liquid nicotine.

Police said they don’t anticipate any charges to be filed, yet called it a continuing investigation.

Liquid nicotine is lawful in New York, and is utilized in e-cigarettes – yet is considered profoundly poisonous.

At present, liquid nicotine containers are not obligatory to be childproof.

One store close by Fort Plain that sells liquid nicotine said childproofing is an essential provision.

“Vapor Geekz has a childproof cap and like I said, we need to make sure the safety as best we can to our public, and I know a grown-up should utilize this, however, stuff happens,” said Molly Brick with Vapor Geekz.

New York legislators are pushing for tighter regulations on fluid nicotine, and a bill tending to the issue of security is anticipated to soon become law.

The New York State Assembly and Senate have officially passed a bill obliging child-resistant packaging on liquid nicotine.

The senator is anticipated to sign it by the end of this month.

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: Baby, Child, e-cigarettes, Fort Plain, Liquid Nicotine, Molly Brick with Vapor Geekz, new york, police, tragic accident

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