Posted on 08/18/2015 6:12:21 PM PDT by ScottWalkerForPresident2016
Electronic cigarettes are around 95 percent less harmful than tobacco and should be promoted as a tool to help smokers quit, a study by an agency of Britain's Department of Health said on Wednesday.
E-cigarettes, tobacco-free devices people use to inhale nicotine-laced vapor, have surged in popularity on both sides of the Atlantic but health organizations have so far been wary of advocating them as a safer alternative to tobacco and governments from California to India have tried to introduce bills to regulate their use more strictly.
"E-cigarettes are not completely risk free but when compared to smoking, evidence shows they carry just a fraction of the harm," said Professor Kevin Fenton from Public Health England, which carried out the study.
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Do you think these people were church-goers before e-cigs came about? Or were they pretty much the same as they are now?
E-cigs are not the problem with people like that.
They’re 100% less offensive to nearby non-users.
My mom used them to quit.
“Do you think these people were church-goers before e-cigs came about? Or were they pretty much the same as they are now?
E-cigs are not the problem with people like that.”
Good golly. Where did you get the idea that I was blaming an inanimate object? And from my experience, and what the Bible tells us, church goers are sinners too.
So the hardware used for nicotine is completely different than that used for THC and in fact the hash “vape” is not a smokeless process.
So, these two entirely different things only look the same from a distance.
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