The South African E-Cigarette Association (EASA), which represents importers and manufacturers of e-cigarettes, urges smokers to switch to e-cigarettes by using signs near roads.
This Saturday, the association erected a sign overlooking the N1 motorway in Johannesburg with the sentence: " E-Cigarettes save lives "(The e-cigarette saves lives). The phrase comes at the base of an article in Dr. Derek Yach, a former head of tobacco control at the World Health Organization. in the magazine " Spectator " UK.
Yach is now at the helm of Vitality Institute In South Africa, who argues that e-cigarettes are " A lesser prejudice »In the face of tobacco. For him, it is clear that people smoke for the calming effects of nicotine, but die of tar in cigarettes.
He suggests that the switch to e-cigarettes be encouraged, because they allow both the effects and benefits of nicotine without the drawbacks. His point of view was approved by the " British Royal College of Physicians". Recently, a Global Disease Study Report shows that lung cancer was the leading cause of death among all cancers last year. To change that, Yach told The Times, “ We need to focus on smoking cessation by offering the use of reduced risk products, such as e-cigarettes". By adding that " Nicotine use does not cause lung cancer, but current public and physician perception suggests that it could cause it »
WHO is currently under pressure from health experts to regulate e-cigarettes, South African Minister of Health, Aaron Motsoaledi Wishes stricter regulation 
of their sale and use. In response, Yach said at Times that if the campaign against e-cigarettes was successful, smokers would be abandoned and would have 50% probability of dying of tobacco"
For voices against the e-cigarette, allow " vape Would be like " normalize the act of smoking After the indoor smoking ban and the ban on advertising that denigrated the practice. South Africa's National Tobacco Control Council fears that “ fun flavors Proposed for e-cigarettes encourage teenagers to start the vape and make them addicted to nicotine. But to that, Yach retorts that there are no more risks than with nicotine gums ... »
Source : timeslive.co.za (Translation by Vapoteurs.net)
