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By Emily

June 14th, 2017

This is a sponsored guest post.

The great vaping versus smoking debate continues to rumble on, but the good news is there’s finally some solid clarity in sight.

Up to recently, many people were generally perplexed about the issue — whether e-cigarettes really were better than puffing tobacco. Now, thanks to a growing body of scientific studies, we’re able to separate vaping fact from fiction.

Possibly the biggest myth surrounding vaping was what was actually in e-cigarettes. First, let’s take a look at tobacco and what’s in it when it’s burned.

An astonishing total of around 4,000 chemicals are released when someone lights up a cigarette. 250 of those are considered toxic and carcinogenic. That’s a huge amount of harm to be inhaling into your body and, all told, tobacco kills over 7 million people around the world every year — 890,000 of them from secondhand smoke, the World Health Organization says.

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In fact, the global health body says the “tobacco epidemic is one of the biggest public health threats the world has ever faced” and that it’s imperative to do everything possible to stop people from smoking.

It’s not just about personal health either, but the wider picture, too. Smokers “who die prematurely deprive their families of income, raise the cost of healthcare and hinder economic development,” says the WHO. If you aren’t around, you can’t contribute to anything.

E-Cigarettes: A “Far Better” Alternative

Enter the humble e-cigarette, which is increasingly being seen as an effective way to help people kick the habit and lead healthier lives. So what’s in it?

Not a lot is the answer. Rather than burn tobacco leaves and release all those hundreds of toxic chemicals, a solution containing nicotine (but not always) is heated by a battery and what’s given off — or blown out of the mouth — is what gives these products their name: vapor.

But is it harmless, or just as toxic as what’s in burning tobacco?

Let’s turn to what another authority has to say about the constituents of e-cigarettes: the U.S. Food & Drug Administration. “These products use liquid containing nicotine, as well as varying compositions of flavorings, propylene glycol, glycerin, and other ingredients. The liquid is heated into an aerosol that the user inhales,” it says, without, to date, going any further.

Meanwhile, research published in the prestigious BMJ medical journal that examined the levels of chemicals in e-cigarettes versus tobacco found that the amount of toxins in vaping products were “9-450 times lower” than in the smoke from tobacco cigarettes.

“Our findings are consistent with the idea that substituting tobacco cigarettes with e-cigarettes may substantially reduce exposure to selected tobacco-specific toxicants,” the researchers concluded.

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The medics concluded that “the available evidence to date indicates that e-cigarettes are being used almost exclusively as safer alternatives to smoked tobacco, by confirmed smokers who are trying to reduce harm to themselves or others from smoking, or to quit smoking completely.” And it advised the promotion of e-cigarettes “as widely as possible as a substitute for smoking.”

Additionally, the top cancer charity in Britain, Cancer Research UK, conducted a long-term study into e-cigarettes and found that “e-cigarettes are a much safer alternative to tobacco, and [the study] suggests the long-term effects of these products will be minimal.”

Finally Kicking the Deadly Habit?

So these are the hard facts about smoking and vaping as we know them. But just how effective are e-cigarettes like the popular NJOY disposable e-cig in quitting smoking? Leading doctors in the UK have the word on this.

The Royal College of Physicians carried out its own study into the use of e-cigarettes, wanting to determine for itself what was fact and what was fiction. They discovered that e-cigarettes “appear to be effective when used by smokers as an aid to quitting smoking” and that there were few if any reasons to be concerned that vaping products were being used as a so-called “gateway to smoking.”

Now that the smoke is clearing on the tobacco versus vaping debate, it may finally be time to stub out tobacco for good.

 

 

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This post currently has 17 responses.

  • Jeanine Carlson

    What’s hard to figure out is there are vape bottles that say they are nicotine free but the back label still lists nicotine. How can that be?

    • I know that some types of vapes are just for flavor so they don’t contain nicotine while others are for those who are used to smoking and want the nicotine. So it wouldn’t surprise me for some bottles to be nicotine free while others contain nicotine, but if you’re saying you’ve seen a bottle say nicotine free on the front and includes nicotine per the label then that is concerning. I would imagine it must be a misprint in the label in that case?

  • ellen beck

    Emily I tweeted atcha, this one is spinning. I had commented on it and thought entered earlier. The rest of the site is coming in fine.

    • Hi Ellen,
      Sorry it’s giving you trouble :(. I just tried to do a few entries and it worked okay for me without any spinning. Can you see if it’s fixed for you now? If not try clearing your browser cookies and cache to see if that helps.

      Also thanks for trying to alert me on twitter. I always appreciate the heads-up when something is wrong with any of our posts. I get tweeted at a few hundred times a day due to the giveaways having my handle in the tweets. I try to browse them and catch any hand-written tweets and reply but I do miss some so feel free to email me if I ever fail to reply on twitter. 🙂

      • ellen beck

        Yep, still spinning. I dont know why, this is the only one I can go to any other giveaway, it is fine, and I visit often (as you know) and can post on anything. I will try clearing but for some reason it is just here.
        No worries on twitter, I know you get mentions constantly! I figured I would hear back eventually.
        I am on bloglovin now, and went to the watch , and thats acting normal as are the others. I even entered a couple more (because you have some good ones happening!) and they acted fine.

        • This link will take you to this giveaway but on the GT site. Could you try this one and let me know if it spins for you too or not? It’s continued to get entries (and is still working fine for me) so it seems to not be a very widespread issue which is why I was thinking that clearing your cookies and cache would be the answer. If this link doesn’t work maybe try another web browser? Hope one of those works but if not let me know. 🙂
          http://giveawaytools2.com/giveaway.php?sk=74568737625

          • ellen beck

            Still a spinner Emily even with the other link using GT. I have no clue what is happening. I can leave a comment here and I did initially enter and after that it just wont go. All your others are coming in fine, I have tried clearing so who knows. I have also tried it at other times of the day figuring maybe GT is glitching which it sometimes does late night when perhaps they do maintenance . I am using Chrome, everything is up to date, and thats what I normally use. Oddly I can see it in IE, but can say paste in my comment.
            Goodness knows. One day maybe it will work . I will keep trying. Thanks so much for checking up on this. You have some good ones happening right now- youre keeping me hopping !

          • ellen beck

            OK go figure, I am on a different computer than I had been using and reinstalled firefox, it is taking it as far as I can tell on my end. This is the only one that has needed it. I dont see my initial comment though so will redo that for ya. It is just odd, but not terribly bad. There does seem to be connectivity problems. I appreciate all youre doing. It should show some entries 6/17 10:00am cst (or so)

  • ellen beck

    http://www.emilyreviews.com/2017/06/tuesday-giveaway-link-up-6132017.html/comment-page-1#comment-306112
    commented-still spinning

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