If you want to switch from the traditional cigarette to the e cigarette, you often have a lot of serious questions. The most important one: Is the e cigarette not as harmful for your health as the conventional cigarette I smoke at the moment? The reports in the media don't always agree, so we turn to science in this blog.<\/p>\n
As early as 2015, the UK Health Service published a report from a major study which found that smoking E cigarettes was 95% less harmful than smoking traditional cigarettes, and found that almost half the population (44.8 percent to be exact) did not realise that E cigarettes were much less harmful than normal cigarettes, so much could be gained in this area.<\/p>\n
The study, conducted by Professors Ann McNeill and Peter Hajek, gives indications that the E cigarette also contributes to the fact that the group of normal smokers is becoming smaller and smaller, which is a good development, considering the first conclusion mentioned above. The study also removes the concern that smoking E cigarettes makes it easier for children and non-smokers themselves to start smoking, as this thesis has proved to be unfounded.<\/p>\n
In March of this year, the University College of London again published a hopeful study on behalf of the British Cancer Institute. The new conclusion was: Smoking E cigarettes is much less harmful than smoking conventional cigarettes - even for a longer period of time. These findings were reached by testing urine and saliva for 6 months from people in three main groups (smokers, E cigarette smokers and users of nicotine patches or nicotine chewing gum).<\/p>\n
The presence and concentration of nicotine and 26 other harmful substances in the urine and saliva was examined. Only the harmful substance NNAL was found in the urine of E cigarette users, in a concentration 97.5% lower than that of normal tobacco smokers. The other substances were found in the same concentrations as measured in users of nicotine substitutes.<\/p>\n
This is good news, because studies after nicotine substitution in the last 30 years have shown that the substances in such concentrations hardly pose a risk in the long term. So also asserted Cancer Research UK<\/em>We have to state that E cigarettes have the same influence on the body as recognized means used to stop smoking. The E cigarette can therefore be considered relatively risk-free.\"<\/p>\n