Fight Your Smoking Addiction & Fix Your Teeth
We all know that smoking brings with it some huge health risks. Regardless, whether you’re a social smoker or a regular smoker, kicking the habit can be tougher than most of us would like to admit. Smoking especially, isn’t just a physical addiction, it can also be a habitual addiction too. The nicotine within the cigarettes themselves is highly addictive thanks to the temporary high it gives your body. By attempting to eliminate this ‘fix’, you can begin to experience withdrawal symptoms and cravings which can often become the stumbling block for most. […]
21 March, 2020
london-post.co.uk
Philippines WHO Rep. Admits That E-Cigs Are Safer Than Cigarettes
The WHO has been overtly against vaping products. Infact last September, two leaked papers from the WHO’s Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office (EMRO), had suggested that the organization was striving to have vaping products regulated in the same way their combustible counterparts. Meanwhile, WHO representative Dr. Ranti Fayokun, a scientist in the National Capacity-Tobacco Control Prevention of Noncommunicable Diseases, has acknowledged the relative safety of the products, during a hearing on vaping regulation conducted by the House of Representatives in the Philippines.
11 March, 2020.
vapingpost.com
American Heart Association Journal Finally Retracts Study Implying That E-Cigarettes Cause Heart Attacks Before People Use Them
Eight months after the Journal of the American Heart Association published a study implying that e-cigarettes magically cause heart attacks before people even try them, it has retracted the article. (…) Notwithstanding the evidence that vaping is much less hazardous than smoking, Glantz and Bhatta, an epidemiologist at the center, concluded that “e‐cigarettes should not be promoted or prescribed as a less risky alternative to combustible cigarettes and should not be recommended for smoking cessation among people with or at risk of myocardial infarction.” But as University of Louisville tobacco researcher Brad Rodu pointed out last July, the analysis that Bhatta and Glantz ran included former smokers who had heart attacks before they started vaping. Once those subjects were excluded, Rodu and University of Louisville economist Nantaporn Plurphanswat found, the association described by (…)
19 February, 2020
reason.com
Global Forum on Nicotine 2020
The theme for the 7th Global Forum on Nicotine, which will take place in Warsaw on 11-13 June this year, is ‘Nicotine: science, ethics and human rights’, reflecting advances in the science of nicotine, alongside the need to address the often complex ethical and moral arguments that are expounded, as well as considering the human rights issues that are a significant concern for consumers and those who advocate for rights to health. #GFN20 invites abstract submissions from any relevant field […] Closing date for abstracts for oral presentations is Sunday 9th February 2020.
27 January, 2020.
gfn.net.co
Vaping is sill at least 95% lower risk than smoking – debunking a feeble and empty critique
This paper turned up in my weekly search of PubMed. Invalidity of an Oft-Cited Estimate of the Relative Harms of Electronic Cigarettes. Eissenberg T, Bhatnagar A, Chapman S, Jordt SE, Shihadeh A, Soule EK. Am J Public Health. 2020 Feb;110(2):161-162. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2019.305424. The commentary claims to show the “invalidity” of the statements made by Public […] Read more of this post
17 January, 2020.
clivebate.com
WHO: Tobacco use drops among men
Worldwide, the number of men using traditional tobacco products has finally started to decline, health officials said recently. Four out of five tobacco users globally are men, so declines among males “mark a turning point in the fight against tobacco,” Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, head of the World Health Organization, said in a statement. The agency’s new report covers an array of tobacco use, including cigarettes, cigars and chewing tobacco. But the WHO did not count electronic cigarettes as tobacco products, […]
7 January, 2020.
columbian.com
The road to vaping
Most Canadians don’t smoke. Yet Canada has chosen to implement a nationwide smoking-cessation strategy to make nicotine vaping devices as accessible as possible. It was an unusual public health decision for regulators to deliberately craft a law to encourage the sale of an addictive product. The federal government’s goal was “to strike a balance between protecting youth from inducement to nicotine and tobacco use, while allowing adult smokers to legally access vaping products,” Health Minister Jane Philpott told a Senate committee on April 12, 2017, […]
2 December, 2019
newsinteractives.cbc.ca
How the British Approach to Vaping Puts the US to Shame
Over the summer, US media reported that two National Health Service hospitals in England were allowing Ecigwizard, a vape retailer, to open stores inside their facilities. What some critics quoted in these reports missed was that these stores were established in order to encourage patients who struggle to quit smoking to switch to vaping. The stores had a secondary purpose of enabling hospital employees to benefit from store associates’ vaping knowledge.
28 September, 2019
filtermag.org
Some smokers credit e-cigarettes with saving their lives – does that matter?
In a major blow to the vaping industry, the American Medical Association has called for a ban on e-cigarettes and vaping products that the FDA doesn’t deem tobacco cessation devices. As a tobacco researcher and former smoker, I don’t care much about the health of the vaping and e-cigarette industry. But I do care about the health of smokers, and I wonder whether policy makers may now be reacting too strongly to e-cigarettes. Although e-cigarettes in the U.S. are not regulated or approved by the FDA as smoking cessation devices, they may have helped thousands quit cigarettes.
26 September, 2019
theconversation.com