Advantages and Disadvantages of Electronic Cigarettes

Electronic cigarettes (ECs) have been present on the consumer market for over a decade, and the number of related scientific publications in the PubMed database has now exceeded seven thousand. Despite the number of publications, there is still no consensus in the scientific community regarding thei...

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description Electronic cigarettes (ECs) have been present on the consumer market for over a decade, and the number of related scientific publications in the PubMed database has now exceeded seven thousand. Despite the number of publications, there is still no consensus in the scientific community regarding their safety. However, it should be emphasized that a comparison of equivalent quantities of tobacco smoke and the aerosol produced from e-cigarettes showed that there was a significantly lower quantity of toxic compounds in the aerosol compared with the tobacco smoke. Therefore, the use of ECs could be seen as a way of reducing the health damage to cigarette smokers who cannot or are unwilling to quit using conventional methods. In addition, randomized studies are emerging suggesting that ECs could be useful in smoking cessation. On the other hand, ECs are now widely used among adolescents and may pose a serious risk of future nicotine dependence and health problems in this population, as they counteract their advantages in the population gained from smokers who quit using them. Therefore, as most authors stress, further research that will convincingly resolve the current controversies is needed. Clinicians urgently need evidence-based knowledge to better inform their patients about the use of these emerging tobacco products as a harm-reduction strategy, and regulators should regulate these products in ways that best serve public health, especially taking the youth population into account.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-980062024-04-11T15:11:05Z Advantages and Disadvantages of Electronic Cigarettes Sobczak, Andrzej Kośmider, Leon e-cigarettes global health vaping tobacco smoke toxicants cessation thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TQ Environmental science, engineering and technology Electronic cigarettes (ECs) have been present on the consumer market for over a decade, and the number of related scientific publications in the PubMed database has now exceeded seven thousand. Despite the number of publications, there is still no consensus in the scientific community regarding their safety. However, it should be emphasized that a comparison of equivalent quantities of tobacco smoke and the aerosol produced from e-cigarettes showed that there was a significantly lower quantity of toxic compounds in the aerosol compared with the tobacco smoke. Therefore, the use of ECs could be seen as a way of reducing the health damage to cigarette smokers who cannot or are unwilling to quit using conventional methods. In addition, randomized studies are emerging suggesting that ECs could be useful in smoking cessation. On the other hand, ECs are now widely used among adolescents and may pose a serious risk of future nicotine dependence and health problems in this population, as they counteract their advantages in the population gained from smokers who quit using them. Therefore, as most authors stress, further research that will convincingly resolve the current controversies is needed. Clinicians urgently need evidence-based knowledge to better inform their patients about the use of these emerging tobacco products as a harm-reduction strategy, and regulators should regulate these products in ways that best serve public health, especially taking the youth population into account. 2023-03-07T16:28:19Z 2023-03-07T16:28:19Z 2023 book ONIX_20230307_9783036565033_16 9783036565033 9783036565040 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/98006 eng image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/6733 MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 10.3390/books978-3-0365-6504-0 10.3390/books978-3-0365-6504-0 46cabcaa-dd94-4bfe-87b4-55023c1b36d0 9783036565033 9783036565040 276 Basel open access
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cessation
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thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TQ Environmental science, engineering and technology
Advantages and Disadvantages of Electronic Cigarettes
title Advantages and Disadvantages of Electronic Cigarettes
title_full Advantages and Disadvantages of Electronic Cigarettes
title_fullStr Advantages and Disadvantages of Electronic Cigarettes
title_full_unstemmed Advantages and Disadvantages of Electronic Cigarettes
title_short Advantages and Disadvantages of Electronic Cigarettes
title_sort advantages and disadvantages of electronic cigarettes
topic e-cigarettes
global health
vaping
tobacco smoke
toxicants
cessation
thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues
thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology
thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TQ Environmental science, engineering and technology
topic_facet e-cigarettes
global health
vaping
tobacco smoke
toxicants
cessation
thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues
thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology
thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TQ Environmental science, engineering and technology
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