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The Vaping Kiwi Cites An Opinion From The Spectator in Australia

Wednesday 19 July 2017, 1:59PM

By Beckie Wright

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Australian newspaper, The Spectator, recently published an article on the current House of Representatives inquiry into the legalisation of personal vaporisers, saying it should be welcomed, not criticised. This inquiry is a response to an international consensus of independent public health bodies that vaping is not only a substantially safer alternative to smoking cigarettes, but that tobacco smokers should be advised to switch to vaping as an effective cessation strategy.

Vapes and e-cigarettes are legal in almost every developed nation and have been for years. Since their introduction, over six million European cigarette smokers have given up their habit by switching. Numerous case studies have proven not only that there is been no evidence of long-term health risks, but that they are not being taken up by non-smokers. These findings directly contradict alarmist claims that vaping will be embraced by youngsters because of its ‘cool’ or glamorised image.

The Royal College of Physicians, the oldest and most respected medical association in the United Kingdom, found that nicotine vapourisation is at least 95 per cent safer than smoking combustible tobacco. When tobacco is burnt, nicotine is released alongside carcinogenic compounds which cause a build-up of tar in the human lung. Vapourising nicotine avoids this entirely and can be conducted using solutions with controlled nicotine concentrations determined by smart regulations.

Similarly, The Vaping Kiwi recommends another article, this time by Associate Professor Colin Mendelsohn, School of Public Health and Community Medicine at The University of New South Wales in Sydney, where he says, “It is now clear that e-cigarettes are an effective aid for helping smokers quit tobacco. Millions of people have now quit smoking using e-cigarettes. For example, in the European Union over 6 million smokers reported having quit using an e-cigarette in 2014. In the UK, 1.5 million former smokers are now vaping. Another 800,000 ex-smokers have quit smoking and vaping altogether.

“Clinical trials of early e-cigarette models found that they were at least as effective as nicotine replacement therapy, such as patches and gum. More advanced devices which deliver higher nicotine levels are more effective. E-cigarettes are the most popular quitting aid in the UK, as they are in the US. I’d like to end with a quote from the UK Royal College of Physicians which did a comprehensive review of all the evidence last year. Their conclusion was, ‘In the interests of public health, it is important to promote the use of e-cigarettes ... as widely as possible as a substitute for smoking.’”

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