Smokeless Tobacco Vs. Smoking Cigarettes

The French may be known for giving a Gallic shrug to health warnings about smoking, but puffing electronic cigarettes in public in France is about to become passé. The nation's health minister, Marisol Touraine, is proposing a ban on using the battery-powered devices that have become a common replacement for traditional tobacco cigs in bars, cafés, and restaurants, as well as enclosed spaces at schools and colleges.

Flouris et al 47 assessed the short-term effects of e-cigarette use on pulmonary function in 15 cigarette smokers who puffed an e-cigarette (>60% propylene glycol, 11 mg/mL nicotine) and a conventional cigarette according to a specified protocol, and passive exposure to e-cigarette aerosol and conventional cigarette smoke with 15 never smokers. Active cigarette smoking resulted in a significant decrease in expired lung volume (forced expiratory volume in the first second of expiration/forced inspiratory vital capacity) that was not seen with active e-cigarette use or with passive tobacco cigarette or e-cigarette exposure.

An e-cigarette started a fire in an Idaho household's living room while the family of four slept. The device, which was charging through a laptop, overheated and exploded. "If that smoke alarm didn't go off, none of us would have woken up, you know, none of us would have been able to get to the door, 'cause it would have been blocked by the flames and we would have all died," the son said The FDA just announced rules that, while overly restrictive (e.g., they don't let companies state the clear truth that e-cigs are much safer than regular cigarettes), won't go far enough for the zealots. So you can expect a continued push in the Legislature for a total or partial ban — despite the facts. Side Effects of Smoking Cigarettes Dangers of Smoking Tobacco

The FDA intends to propose a regulation that would extend the agency's ‘tobacco product' authorities — which only apply to cigarettes, cigarette tobacco, roll-your-own tobacco, and smokeless tobacco — to other categories of tobacco products that meet the statutory definition of tobacco product," ecigs an FDA spokeswoman said in an email. The vapor debate is reaching a fever pitch as former smokers are passionately touting the benefits of going electronic while public health officials are sounding alarms about the unregulated marketing of e-cigs and the increasing number of teen users.

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