Authors: Andy McEwen and Hayden McRobbie Reviewers: Jamie Brown, Lynne Dawkins, Peter Hajek, Wayne Hall, Elspeth Henderson, Sarah Jakes, Lorien Jollye, Joanne Locker, Louise Ross, Robert West Produced in partnership with Public Health England National Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training (NCSCT), Version 2. Date of last modification: January 2016, ISBN 978-0-9565243-4-8 Source: Click Here…
McNeill A, Brose LS, Calder R, Hitchman SC, Hajek P & McRobbie H. Public Health England Source: Click Here “In a nutshell, best estimates show e-cigarettes are 95% less harmful to your health than normal cigarettes, and when supported by a smoking cessation service, help most smokers to quit tobacco altogether.” Key Messages Smokers who…
Bates C. Counterfactual Consulting and Advocacy Source: Click Here Great overview and comprehensive analysis of the issues.
Electronic Cigarette (as with ALL Lithium Ion) Batteries should NOT be placed in Checked Luggage. All Lithium Ion Batteries should be kept with you in your carry on baggage. FAA to Airlines: E-cigs in Checked Bags are Fire Risk January 23–As the popularity of e-cigarettes increases, the FAA wants airlines to ensure passengers don’t put…
Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center Source: Click Here E-cigarettes appear to be less addictive than cigarettes in former smokers and this could help improve understanding of how various nicotine delivery devices lead to dependence, according to researchers. Higher nicotine concentration in e-cig liquid, as well as use of advanced second-generation e-cigs, which deliver…
Dr. Konstantinos Farsalinos Source: Click Here This article is in direct response to an article published in Mail Online, a UK media outlet. The article reported a quote from Naoki Kunugita, a researcher at the Department of Environmental Health-National Institute of Public Health in Japan, which stated: “In one brand of e-cigarette the team found more…
We have been receiving and overwhelming number of questions regarding E-Liquid testing and standards over the last several months. This is perhaps due to a study recently published in Nicotine & Tobacco Research by Konstantinos E. Farsalinos, MD, Kurt A. Kistler, PhD, Gene Gillman, PhD and Vassilis Voudris, PhD about a wide-spread “the presence of selected inhalation toxins”…
From “The Good Doctor” Konstantinos Farsalinos, the long awaited analysis of the prevelance of Dicetyl in off-the-shelf E-Liquid. http://www.ecigarette-research.com/web/index.php/research/2014/178-da-ap The results should really be of no surprise to anyone at this point but it clearly and scientificly proves there is a problem within the industry and it MUST be corrected. If your E-Liquid vendor is not…
Igor Burstyn BMC Public Health 2014 Source: Click Here Dr. Burstyn utilized over 9,000 observations of electronic cigarette liquids and vapor in order to assess possible threats to the direct user and bystanders. Dr. Burstyn concluded that the levels of chemicals in e-cigarette vapor are so low so as to pose no apparent risk to…
This article by Bernd Mayer (Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Karl-Franzens University Graz) states, “Nicotine is a toxic compound that should be handled with care, but the frequent warnings of potential fatalities caused by ingestion of small amounts of tobacco products or diluted nicotine-containing solutions are unjustified and need to be revised in light of overwhelming data…