Controversy about the safety of electronic cigarettes

Battery-powered tobacco products sparked a lot of controversy in the US about its safety for users.

>>> Electronic cigarettes are at risk for health

Today, many people choose electronic cigarettes as a way to quit smoking. Unlike regular cigarettes, e-cigarettes do not have a fiber, but they contain liquid nicotine in the form of a mist spray to allow the user to breathe air.

Electronic cigarettes.(Internet photo)

It is unknown how this effect works, but this battery-powered tobacco product has sparked a lot of controversy in the US about its safety for its users.

In a report earlier this month, a group of scientists from the University of California, USA claimed that e-cigarettes are really unsafe due to design errors, missing information on labels and Other concerns about quality management as well as user health impacts.

Therefore, they recommended that the US Food and Drug Administration prohibit the circulation of this product until there is sufficient scientific evidence to prove its safety.

However, researchers at Boston University, USA, have come up with completely opposite conclusions. They think e-cigarettes are a useful tool that can help users quit smoking.

On the other hand, the prohibition of buying and selling this product only helps companies that produce silver cigarettes, because when there are no alternatives, consumers will return to traditional cigarettes and are easily relapse.

Boston University scientists also stressed that e-cigarettes are not really safe, but there is plenty of evidence that they are safer than cigarettes and less toxic than nicotine-containing products. usually, common, normal.