I still smoke and while I've cut down to roughly 1/4 pack a day I am still working on quitting... just can't quite give it up totally cold turkey. Though it's possible at this point... of course MT would suffer from horrendous mean posts from me for the duration of my withdrawls :lol: (just kidding)...
Still, looking at this as an alternative... :idunno: Considering what I spend a month is about the cost of one of these gadgets.
Of course quitting altogether is the BEST alternative I know that... but looking at this article and the concerns that the dept. of health and so forth and labeling it as a new drug... read the (full) article and say what you think.
Still, looking at this as an alternative... :idunno: Considering what I spend a month is about the cost of one of these gadgets.
Of course quitting altogether is the BEST alternative I know that... but looking at this article and the concerns that the dept. of health and so forth and labeling it as a new drug... read the (full) article and say what you think.
I think who could be all up in arms against this product might be the tobacco companies themselves... think of the monies LOST on such a venture...Chinese electronic cigarettes gain ground amid safety concerns
The e-cigarettes vaporize a nicotine solution, rather than burn tobacco, using a battery in the shape of a cigarette with a red LED that lights up when inhaled By Chi-chi Zhang, Vinnee Tong AND Carley Petesch
AP , BEIJING AND NEW YORK
Sunday, Mar 01, 2009, Page 12
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/bizfocus/archives/2009/03/01/2003437283
With its slim white body and glowing amber tip, it can easily pass as a regular cigarette. It even emits what look like curlicues of white smoke. The Ruyan V8, which produces a nicotine-infused mist absorbed directly into the lungs, is just one of a rapidly growing array of electronic cigarettes attracting attention in China, the US and elsewhere — and the scrutiny of world health officials.
Marketed as a healthier alternative to smoking and a potential way to kick the habit, the smokeless smokes have been distributed in swag bags at the British film awards and hawked at an international trade show.
Because no burning is involved, makers say there’s no hazardous cocktail of cancer-causing chemicals and gases like those produced by a regular cigarette.
There’s no secondhand smoke, so they can be used in places where cigarettes are banned, the makers said.
Health authorities are questioning those claims.
The WHO issued a statement in September warning there was no evidence to back up contentions that e-cigarettes were a safe substitute for smoking or a way to help smokers quit.
It also said companies should stop marketing them that way, especially since the product may undermine smoking prevention efforts because they look like the real thing and may lure nonsmokers, including children.
“There is not sufficient evidence that [they] are safe products for human consumption,” Timothy O’Leary, a communications officer at the WHO’s Tobacco Free Initiative in Geneva, said this week.