 |
| electronic cigarettes - a Trojan horse of tobacco companies |
electronic cigarettes
Researchers have proven that they do not help quit smoking and seriously harm health.
The World Health Organization claims: 1 billion people now smoke on Earth. This is 7% less than in 2000. In Russia, the number of adult smokers has declined even more - by 10% over 10 years. Now we have about one in three pitches.
The anti-smoking law adopted in 2013 played a role in quitting smoking. He forbade smoking in public places, advertising cigarettes and limited places for their sale.
To tobacco companies from this one loss. But they found how to get out. And they began to promote an alternative to traditional cigarettes - electronic tobacco heating systems.
The presentation of the device focuses on the fact that tobacco only heats up to 300 ° C. Whereas in a regular cigarette it burns at temperatures above 600 ° C. As a result, the user of the device allegedly receives less harmful substances and maintains health. In addition, they say tobacco is a great way to quit smoking.
The manufacturer presented his brainchild in 2014. So while there is little scientific research on these cigarettes. And most of the available ones were carried out by the tobacco companies themselves, which does not allow us to talk about their objectivity.
The conclusions of independent examinations are disappointing.
Tobacco workers claim that when using an electronic cigarette, much less harmful substances enter the human body than with regular smoking. But there is other evidence.
- Some of the consequences of using electronic gadgets can be really less pronounced than with cigarettes. But others can be just as negative and even worse, ”warns professor at the University of California at San Francisco Stanton Glantz.
American scientists compared the levels of 113 chemicals found in the smoke of electronic and conventional cigarettes. It turned out that the concentration of 56 of them when using the gadget was higher!
They also set up an experiment on rats. After a single tobacco electronic stick, rodents experienced the same spasm of blood vessels as after smoking a regular cigarette.
The American Medical Association (JAMA) found that the smoke from a tobacco-heating device contains 84% of the nicotine that is found when smoking regular cigarettes.
The Swiss medical magazine Revue Médicale Suisse refutes the argument that the device is less harmful because the tobacco in this device does not burn, but heats up. The difference between incomplete and complete combustion is sometimes insignificant. Smoke from the gadget contains most of the harmful compounds found in the smoke of regular cigarettes, just sometimes at a lower concentration.
The British scientific journal Tobacco Control has confirmed the adverse effects of aerosol e-cigarettes on the lungs. And scientists at the University of California at San Francisco supplemented the picture by saying that the filter inside the device, when heated and melted, emits formaldehyde cyanohydrin. This substance is used in the manufacture of rubber, it is toxic in any concentration.
So there is nothing to be surprised when you read complaints from users of the tobacco system about severe dizziness, decreased immunity, and joint pain on the Internet.
SMOKE WITH FIRE
Manufacturers claim that their gadget helps quit smoking. In fact, many people begin to use it in parallel with regular cigarettes - where it is forbidden to smoke by law.
And the electronic device often becomes the first "draw" for young people. Young people who never smoked, using a fashionable nicotine gadget, become nicotine addicted and switch to regular cigarettes. Why? Because there is nicotine in tobacco heating systems, and it always causes addiction.
By the way, a similar story is observed with other electronic cigarettes that do not use heat. Among adult American smokers, approximately 75 - 80% use these devices with regular cigarettes. The American Association for the Protection of Non-Smoking Rights talks about their popularity among young people. For several years (from 2011 to 2015) among high school students, the number of smokers of electronic cigarettes increased by 900%.
All this is in the hands of tobacco users. They present their brainchild as a fashionable and high-tech thing.
STAY IN TOUCH!
Health experts warn: tobacco heating devices are the same cigarettes that have not yet been studied. They not only do not help people overcome a dangerous habit, but they can also cause it.
If you do not stop the popularization of nicotine gadgets, do not apply the anti-smoking law to them, the Trojan horse of electronic cigarettes will open more and more doors to our homes.
According to the World Health Organization, already every year 8 million people on the planet die from smoking, another 1 million from secondary exposure to tobacco smoke.
Post a Comment