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GENEVA: Seventy-two specialists in nicotine science, policy and practice have written to WHO and its stakeholders asking that they
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A top British specialist has endorsed the findings of a new report that shows the supposed “dangers” of using e-cigarettes are...
Despite some confusion by residents and expats surrounding the personal use of e-cigarettes, "Federal Law No.15 of 2009, the sale of e-cigarettes and e-shishas are prohibited in the country." However, according to the co-authors of the article, "there is no law stating that smoking e-cigarettes here (in the UAE) is illegal."
Note too that It is illegal to enter UAE with e-cigarettes. #ecigarettes #vaping #UAE
Smoking e-cigarettes in public is against law in UAE
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The Dubai Municipality has made it clear that e-cigarettes are treated like any other cigarettes in Dubai.HONG KONG: Twenty-year smoker says 10-year struggle to stop smoking ended when he switched to e-cigarettes. #vaping #harmreduction #ecigarettes #hongkong
Why Hong Kong ban on e-cigarettes is wrong – they helped me quit tobacco
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Peyton Chan was a smoker for 20 years. For 10 of those years he tried in vain to quit, and only succeeded when he switched to e-cigarettes. He thinks other smokers should have the chance to do the sameHONG KONG: Despite the e-cigarette ban, "the government continues to allow a regulated legal market in conventional cigarettes, which are known to kill many of those who smoke. That is not to mention the significant disabilities known to be caused by conventional smoking, such as emphysema and circulatory problems, which people live with before dying, and the cost to the economy in lost productivity due to illness and death." #vaping #ecigarettes #hkvaping #hongkong
Higher taxes show way to cut smoking
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In her policy address, Carrie Lam proposed a ban on the sale of e-cigarettes in the city, fearing possible harm to health and abuse by youngsters, but one measure has already achieved resultsWe need to make a clear distinction between the consequences of smoking and the consumption of nicotine; nicotine is addictive, but there is no evidence it is carcinogenic. The harm from cigarette smoking comes from the tar produced by the burning of tobacco, which releases thousands of chemicals, of which about 80 are carcinogenic. British psychiatrist Mike Russell once said that people “smoke for the nicotine, but die from the tar.” Therefore, there needs to be a clear decoupling of the two substances, and a realistic alternative available to support harm-reduction efforts.
The alternative
If tobacco is the enemy, then we must consider ways of separating nicotine and tobacco, and find a delivery mechanism that provides a credible alternative to conventional smoking. There is growing appreciation that electronic nicotine-delivery systems (ENDS), or e-cigarettes, provide a credible and satisfying alternative; they pose fewer health risks and crucially eliminate combustion from the process. #vaping #harmreduction #ecigarettes
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The government should regulate the e-cigarette market, rather than an outright ban, particularly since tobacco smoking remains legal and products are readily available.PHE credits electronic cigarettes for helping many of the nearly 400,000 Britons who quit smoking in 2017. It says that 52 per cent of current vapers in the U.K. quit cigarettes completely. #thr #ecigarettes #vaping
U.K. says vaping is safer than tobacco
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Re: “Why do the billionaire Koch brothers care about our pot?” column, Oct. 9. Good one, Jack Knox. But I’m still waiting for the Capital Regional District’s Clean Air Bylaw to catch up to the . . .