A few days ago, the annual American vaping summit took place in the United States: THEE-Cigarette Summit 2021. For the occasion, several health experts recalled the advantages of vaping and reduced-risk non-combustion products which represent a real alternative in the face of the many harmful effects of smoking.
THE E-CIGARETTE IS AN EFFECTIVE CONTRIBUTION TO SMOKING
We thought we would no longer really have to remember it as it seems today to be obvious… However, the news still shows the ignorance and mistrust that vaping can incite in Europe but also in many countries of the world. During the Virtual E-cigarette Summit USA which took place on 25 and 26 May 2021, a conclusion recalls reality: " The electronic cigarette effectively contributes to the fight against tobacco addiction ". The speakers were therefore all unanimous in saying that the dangers associated with smoking are now widely known and listed.
Among the renowned speakers who took part in the online event, there was the Prof. Ken Warner, Dean Emeritus in Public Health Research. According to him, a large part of the public (health organizations, media, decision-makers and even smokers…) wrongly consider that vaping and other alternative products are as dangerous as smoking. However, there are many studies that indicate that the use of e-cigarettes and heated tobacco increase the chances of quitting smoking. thus, he said, the health community, but also the media and policy makers should more carefully assess the potential of vaping and heated tobacco to reduce smoking-attributable mortality in adults. In his argument, he adds that all the data agree to indicate that vaping contributes significantly to reducing smoking, not only in the United States, but also across the world.
For its part, Neal L. Benowitz, professor emeritus at the medical university of San Francisco California, returned to the issue of chemicals that may be present in vaping products (such as propylene glycol and / or vegetable glycerin (glycerol)), noting that they are relatively non-toxic when inhaled in the short and medium term.
According to Ann McNeill, researchers, policy makers and tobacco control advocates around the world are working hard to try to end the tobacco epidemic. In this relentless fight against the dangers of smoking, the UK has taken a compassionate approach to alternative products, especially among groups where the prevalence of smoking remains very high, such as those who suffer from mental health problems, drug addicts, or the homeless ...
For its part, D, Chief Impact Officer Njoy, recalled that in the United States, certain products arrived legally on the market because the FDA provided several scientific proofs as to their validity and considered that they were appropriate because without risks for public health.
To Clive Bates, director of "counterfactual», There is a powerful way to help us obtain, at a lower cost, a spectacular victory in the field of public health: Vaping.
Source : Algeria360
