While the World Health Organization (WHO) warns non-smokers such as children, adolescents, and pregnant women about the release of nicotine from e-cigarettes, a study by the Public Health England agency, attached to the British Department of Health affirms that its very low release of nicotine would not involve any risk of passive vaping.
It is even, according to researchers, 95% less dangerous for health than tobacco.
The electronic cigarette: an effective smoking cessation product?
“Although vaping is not 100% safe, most chemicals that cause cancer related illnesses tobacco are absent and those who remain represent only very limited dangers “, they explain in the study.
The latter present the electronic cigarette as an effective smoking cessation product that should be prescribed by doctors and want to be reassuring about its use in the most youth. According to the study, only 2% of minors vape at least once a month and 0.5% at least once a week.
E-cigarette: towards the lifting of its ban in public places in England?
Public Health England is proposing measures such as ending the ban on the use of electronic cigarettes near medical centers and in prisons in England.
In France, the WHO had voted in August 2014 in favor of a ban on electronic cigarettes for minors, and its use had been banned in closed public places until it was proved that the exhaled vapor is not harmful to non-smokers.
The electronic cigarette as dangerous as tobacco?
According to the authors of the study, “There has been a general shift in the past year, among young people and adults, towards the inaccurate idea that electronic cigarettes are at least as dangerous as cigarettes“.
For Professor Kevin Fenton, director of health and wellness at Public Health England, the problem lies in this misconception. “It can prevent millions of smokers from quitting. Local help centers should encourage e-cigarette users in their desire to quit altogether.”
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