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UK Researchers Respond to WHO Vaping Warnings
WHO (The World Health Organisation) has recently issued new warnings
around vaping. This has caused UK Public Health experts to speak up and
question these warnings, and accused WHO of spreading misinformation
around the benefits and potential risks of e cigarettes.
WHO expressed concerns over vaping E Liquid and the value of e cigarettes
as a smoking cessation tool against the potential harms. The organization
made the statement ‘there is no doubt that e cigarettes are harmful to health
and are not safe but is is too early to provide a clear answer on the long-term
impact of using them’.
WHO have also said there isn’t enough evidence to support the use of e
cigarettes as a succesful smoking cessation product. This is despite all
available records and evidence of success stories from ex smokers who used
Vaping as an alternative.
WHO’s warnings about vaping seem to echo the same warnings from US
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and some U.S. scientists, who
are expressing alarm over uncertain hazards from vaping. This is of course
the outbreak of severe lung disease that’s still being investigated and is linked
to THC-containing e-cigarettes.
Peter Hajek, who directs the Tobacco Dependence Research Unit at Queen
Mary University of London wrote the following statement which was released
by the UK Science Media Centre:
“There is no evidence that vaping is ‘highly addictive,’” he said. “Less than 1% of non-smokers become regular vapers. Vaping does not lead young people to smoking—smoking among young people is at [an] all-time low. There is clear evidence that e-cigarettes help smokers quit.”
The Director of the UK Centre for Tobacco & Alcohol studies, and a consultant
in respiratory medicine at Nottingham University, John Britton- ‘’E-cigarettes
are “clearly less harmful” than tobacco’’ “WHO misrepresents the available
scientific evidence’’.
The Public Health England still maintains that vaping is at least 95% less
harmful than smoking cigarettes.The UK has also said the WHO has a history of anti-vaping activism that is damaging their reputation.
There are still many investigations that will be carried out around the concerns
of vaping for both long term and short term. Studies are still ongoing to
explore whether vaping does pose any health risks to the lungs and
cardiovascular system.
For WHO they are still adamant that the downside of vaping clearly outweighs
their benefits. Currently vaping is banned in over 30 countries worldwide with
more and more countries consideration to follow this.
What we do know though is smoking kills more than 8 million people a year
worldwide and many ex smokers have shared publicly their success stories
about how vaping E Liquids helped them finally quit smoking after using
alternative methods like patches, gum, etc.
WHO (The World Health Organisation) has recently issued new warnings
around vaping. This has caused UK Public Health experts to speak up and
question these warnings, and accused WHO of spreading misinformation
around the benefits and potential risks of e cigarettes.
WHO expressed concerns over vaping E Liquid and the value of e cigarettes
as a smoking cessation tool against the potential harms. The organization
made the statement ‘there is no doubt that e cigarettes are harmful to health
and are not safe but is is too early to provide a clear answer on the long-term
impact of using them’.
WHO have also said there isn’t enough evidence to support the use of e
cigarettes as a succesful smoking cessation product. This is despite all
available records and evidence of success stories from ex smokers who used
Vaping as an alternative.
WHO’s warnings about vaping seem to echo the same warnings from US
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and some U.S. scientists, who
are expressing alarm over uncertain hazards from vaping. This is of course
the outbreak of severe lung disease that’s still being investigated and is linked
to THC-containing e-cigarettes.
Peter Hajek, who directs the Tobacco Dependence Research Unit at Queen
Mary University of London wrote the following statement which was released
by the UK Science Media Centre:
“There is no evidence that vaping is ‘highly addictive,’” he said. “Less than 1% of non-smokers become regular vapers. Vaping does not lead young people to smoking—smoking among young people is at [an] all-time low. There is clear evidence that e-cigarettes help smokers quit.”
The Director of the UK Centre for Tobacco & Alcohol studies, and a consultant
in respiratory medicine at Nottingham University, John Britton- ‘’E-cigarettes
are “clearly less harmful” than tobacco’’ “WHO misrepresents the available
scientific evidence’’.
The Public Health England still maintains that vaping is at least 95% less
harmful than smoking cigarettes.The UK has also said the WHO has a history of anti-vaping activism that is damaging their reputation.
There are still many investigations that will be carried out around the concerns
of vaping for both long term and short term. Studies are still ongoing to
explore whether vaping does pose any health risks to the lungs and
cardiovascular system.
For WHO they are still adamant that the downside of vaping clearly outweighs
their benefits. Currently vaping is banned in over 30 countries worldwide with
more and more countries consideration to follow this.
What we do know though is smoking kills more than 8 million people a year
worldwide and many ex smokers have shared publicly their success stories
about how vaping E Liquids helped them finally quit smoking after using
alternative methods like patches, gum, etc.
