Does e-cigarette really help you quit smoking, know what WHO says

Electronic cigarettes, e-cigarettes or vaporized cigarettes are a battery-powered device, an alternative to smoking tobacco products such as cigarettes, cigars, or pipes. In addition to the so-called nicotine delivery, this vapor also provides a taste and physical sensation similar to the tobacco smoke consumed, while in this process there is no smoke or combustion. In 2003, Hon Lik, a Chinese pharmacist, devised electronic cigarettes and was introduced to the market the following year.

Opinion of WHO The World Health Organization (WHO) announced in September 2008 that it did not believe electronic cigarettes were a rational way to break the smoking habit, and the WHO had demanded its marketers remove any advice from its content that The WHO considers electronic cigarettes safe and effective. Douglas Becher, temporary director of the WHO's tobacco-free initiative, states that, "If electronic cigarette marketers want to quit smoking addiction, they need to conduct clinical studies and toxicity analysis and work under the appropriate regulatory framework. Unless They do not do so until the WHO cannot consider electronic cigarettes as a suitable nicotine replacement therapy. Certainly can not accept false suggestions that WHO has endorsed the product. "

Steps being taken to stop the sale: -

Explain that in 2010, a meeting of tobacco regulation in Uruguay was put under heavy pressure to give negative warnings about electronic cigarettes. This pressure came mainly from the compromising countries - Canada, Brazil, Thailand, Hong Kong and Saudi Arabia - to ban electronic cigarettes.

New Hampshire, New York and Pennsylvania, along with New Jersey, have also begun an effort to ban electronic cigarettes using various methods. New Hampshire's reform campaign is a unique and unique category of its own. In New Hampshire, a team of students has formed a group called "Breath New Hampshire". The group has appealed to the state government to ban the sale of electronic cigarettes to minors. While the sale of electronic cigarettes to minors is a legal matter, some worry that electronic cigarettes will open the way for normal cigarette smoking. In addition, Arizona plans a ban on selling electronic cigarettes to minors. In Washington state, the King County Board of Health has banned the smoking of electronic cigarettes in public places and prohibited the sale to minors.

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