Whether electronic cigarettes safe?

Tonya Moraffah took a long breath of medicine and felt the nicotine rise in a refreshing way, then she explained why she could end her habit of smoking for 30 years.

Every evening Tonya Moraffah, a professional assistant from Tustin, Caf is charging the electronic cigarette with his battery. Thanks to it, she no longer had to wear a fire machine or inhale mint throughout the day when she came to the office.

She said: 'I consider myself a non-smoker. I have to thank God because I am much healthier than when I was smoking. And many other benefits. I don't want to smell tobacco on me all the time. '

Electronic cigarettes are tasteless, and the filter contains nicotine, which releases an inhalable gas. People advertise e-cigarettes as an alternative to cigarettes that can cause congestion and common cancer.

However, the Food and Drug Administration is having a lot of controversy over this issue. Last June, the organization warned that electronic cigarettes were still harmful. The government's analysis of a Chinese-made product shows that there are carcinogens and other toxic chemicals in the product. In an unfinished lawsuit recently, the organization was sued for the right to enforce e-cigarette regulations.

The Food and Drug Administration said: 'Since the e-cigarette product was not approved by the organization's identification and consent, we could not know the effects of nicotine as well as the Other chemicals in the product. We only control a few types of products that we have tested '

The founder of In Life, an electronic cigarette distribution company for Irvine, Mr. Craig Youngblood, insists that the components of their products are safe and harmless.

In terms of e-cigarettes, Moraffah likes it like an imaginary pen, or something like an old cigarette, with only one difference being at the top of the cigarette, it will have blue instead of red fire. An electronic cigarette costs about $ 100 plus the cost of nicotine filters, depending on their length. On the body of the medicine, there is a warning label for smoking prevention of the Drug and Food Organization, along with a warning to keep out of the reach of children.

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Youngblood also said: 'We don't want them to look like regular cigarettes. Electronic cigarettes should be more practical because they are clearly against tobacco. '

Youngblood said as if he were in a anti-smoking campaign. He cited statistics on forest fires, about a series of beaches littered with cigarette butts. Excluding the federal government statistics, more than 430 000 people die prematurely from smoking or smelling tobacco from smokers around the year.

However, that was the point Youngblood and his allies opposed to smoking ignored.

According to Dr Ira Jeffry Strumpf, a lung researcher who currently teaches at UCLA and is also a spokesman for the American Lung Association, e-cigarettes have not been independently proven as An alternative to conventional cigarettes.

He said: 'It is not that the e-cigarette smoker is not toxic because the nicotine content in it is not pure but it is also contaminated with many other impurities. When FDA tested 19 filters, they found half of them contained impurities that were harmful to human health. There is at least one filter that contains diethylene glycol, a toxic anticoagulant. "

One problem that Strumpf also worries about is that e-cigarettes are advertised not only to people who want to quit smoking but also those who have never smoked before . The truth of advertising electronic cigarettes in the form of cigarettes is that producers are trying to take advantage of the social aspect of smoking and try to encourage people to smoke.

Brad Rodu, a tobacco researcher at Kentucky State University in Louisville, thinks e-cigarettes are a better alternative when people can't quit. He said: 'We cannot say e-cigarettes are absolutely safe but obviously we all know that they will be much more beneficial than continuing to smoke regular cigarettes and inhaling 3,000 to 4000 things. toxic."

A 52-year-old man, named Peter French, was extremely supportive of electronic cigarettes, so he started selling them to In Life. He advertises them everywhere, in restaurants, in banks and even in churches. He said he likes creativity, likes curious looks and questions.
Laguna Beach, an e-cigarette user, said: 'It saved my life. I really regained my taste and enjoyed many things in life. '

French said that although he tried to stop smoking in any way from high use, chewing gum to other medical methods, he still craved the interesting feeling in the mouth that tobacco brought. And electronic cigarettes helped him. Raising your hand to your mouth and taking a breath, it is no different when you use electronic medicine, the feeling is no different from using regular cigarettes. According to French, what smokers need is nicotine in the drug, not other harmful substances.