In addition to being a real dialogue of the deaf, it becomes the never-ending story! It is with amazement that we discover the new advisory opinion du High Council of Public Health (HCSP) released a few days ago. According to the "experts", vaping should not be offered as a tool for smoking cessation by health professionals, for lack of perspective on its benefits and risks ... This new opinion which replaces a precedent dated 2016 remains a considerable step back however compared to the many studies available to date.
“NOT CONDEMNED” VAPING BY THE HCSP, SMOKERS IF…
Vaping should not be offered as a tool for smoking cessation by health professionals, for lack of perspective on its benefits and risks, believes the High Council of Public Health (HCSP). " Health professionals who support a smoker in a process of smoking cessation must use drug treatments or not that have proven their effectiveness.“Like nicotine patches or gums, judges this advisory body in an opinion published on Monday.
According to him, " insufficient evidence-based knowledge to offer (electronic cigarettes) as smoking cessation aids in the management of smokers by healthcare professionals". " The potential benefits and risks of the medium or long-term use of electronic cigarettes with or without nicotine, have not yet been established.“, Continues the HCSP, which wants studies on the subject.
Real earthquake at the beginning of the year 2022 or the hope remained, the HCSP declares without any gene not to completely condemn these products, which can " be used outside (or in addition to) support within the framework of the
skincare". Even though many smokers could be saved by this risk reduction tool, it is however a final condemnation that the High Council of Public Health has just pronounced in favor of millions of tobacco users.
This opinion replaces a precedent dated 2016, in which the HCSP believed that vaping could “ be seen as an aid in stopping or reducing tobacco consumption". The High Council of Public Health has therefore taken a real step backwards and this behavior will not be without consequences for the health of many French smokers who nevertheless wish to free themselves from tobacco.
Find the full opinion on the benefits-risks of electronic cigarettes from the HCSP at this address.
