Originally Posted By: Astro14
So, you're not smoking...but you're sucking chemicals into your lungs every day?
How is using the e-cig better for you than smoking? Still sucking chemicals into your lungs..
Not to inject research and fact into what should be a purely emotional debate but here goes.
I don't vape or smoke. The danger in smoking has never been nicotine, which is a mild but addictive stimulant. The danger has always been the tar and byproducts of combustion, both of which are absent in ecigs.
Much like caffeine, another mild but addictive stimulant, is typically delivered via a sugar-filled acidic beverage. Caffeine does not give you ulcers or diabetes, but drinking Cokes or double mocha lattes can.
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Electronic cigarettes are around 95 percent less harmful than tobacco and should be promoted as a tool to help smokers quit, a study by an agency of Britain's Department of Health said on Wednesday.
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Most of the chemicals that cause smoking-related diseases are absent in e-cigarettes and the current best estimate is that e-cigarette use is around 95 percent less harmful to health than smoking, the study said.
Passive inhalation from an e-cigarette was also much less harmful.
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The Public Health England study said e-cigarettes, which are already the most popular quitting aids in Britain and the United States, could be a cheap way to reduce smoking in deprived areas where there remains a high proportion of smokers.
It criticized media campaigns that have called e-cigarettes equally or even more harmful than smoking that could serve as a "gateway" to tobacco cigarettes among teenagers.
"There is no evidence that e-cigarettes are undermining England's falling smoking rates," said Professor Ann McNeil who helped author the study.
"Instead the evidence consistently finds that e-cigarettes are another tool for stopping smoking and in my view smokers should try vaping, and vapers should stop smoking entirely," she added.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/18/us-health-britain-ecigarettes-idUSKCN0QN2AC20150818
Originally Posted By: Pop_Rivit
Vaping is nothing more than a stupid habit, and using it to quit smoking is trading one stupid habit for another. If you want to quit smoking, quit it altogether. Don't simply use an adult pacifier.
The research indicates otherwise.