Thankfully not all scientists are on the payroll of Big Pharma (large pharmaceutical companies) and other parties set to benefit from the strict regulation of e-cigarettes. A group of 53 leading scientists from around the globe have urged the World Health Organisation (WHO) to take a sympathetic approach to e-cigarettes as the potential public health prize could be a huge step in the right direction. The World Health Organisation is putting together a proposal to regulate e-cigarettes and one of the ways they plan to do this is to place them under the same directive as tobacco products which will mean a ban on advertising, higher taxes, introducing warning labels and prohibiting usage in public places. As Professor Gerry Stinson points out, by placing e-cigarettes under the same regulation the products will be viewed in the same way as other tobacco products, which is to say that they will be seen as dangerous and risky when in fact the available scientific evidence suggests that vaping is significantly less harmful than smoking. He stresses the essential point that all opposed to e-cigarettes conveniently fail to mention.
Vaping, of course, has no burning parts and does not produce the over 4000 chemicals found in tobacco smoke. E-cigarettes do not contain tobacco and the vapour that they produce by heating e-liquid does not contain tar. While tobacco cigarettes and electronic cigarettes may appear similar, their fundamental differences should not be ignored.
Many vapers use vaping products, such as nicotine e-cigarettes, to quit smoking tobacco products. Each year, tobacco kills millions of people prematurely.
Let's pray that the WHO brings in a sensible approach and is considerate of the growing vaping community!
