2. Growing smoking rate among young adults is a one of the most
concerning issue for government of Different countries and it is growing
exponentially in developing countries. Government of different countries
has also put a ban on various types of public advertising by cigarette
companies, hence each year new audience of young adults being directed
towards smoking and being more addictive to tobacco. In the US,
according to a survey conducted in 2012, 19.3% of adults in US are
smokers. Currently the digit has been reached to 8 million. View our
post “Smoking Trends in US” for detail information on smoking trends
among people in the US.
Each year, the government spends billions of dollars on medical and
healthcare expenditure and assigns millions of dollars to tobacco control
programs to reduce the overall consumption of the cigarettes. So the
question is, Should We Consider E-cigarette As a tool to reduce
tobacco consumption?” or Should tobacco control programs support
the circulation of E-cigarette?” Before making any assumption, let’s
3. have a quick look at the official research conducted by AAPHP on E-
cigarette and its feedback.
Official Statements by AAPHP (
American Association of Public Health
Physician)
American Association of Public Health Physician conducted a research on
the E – cigarette and given a statement in Favor of E-cigarette. By
observing the impact of E-cigarette and current smoking trends among
US adults. It Stated that “AAPHP favors a permissive approach to E-
cigarettes because the possibility exists to save the lives of four
million of the eight million current adult American smokers who will
otherwise die of a tobacco-related illness over the next twenty years”.
4. Along with above statement it also stated that if a person who is a heavy
smoker switched to smokeless tobacco product with less contain of
nicotine like E-cigarette or NRT products, he or she can reduce the risk
by 98% which might caused by other harmful chemicals and
tobacco found in traditional cigarettes. Along with providing a
statement in favor of E-cigarette, it also stated that in the US, 80% of the
people consumed nicotine through traditional cigarettes and death
caused by cigarettes is not due to nicotine but the other harmful mixture
consumed with tobacco in cigarettes.
My Thoughts
Scientifically, E-cigarette doesn’t use tobacco or other harmful mixture as
of traditional cigarettes. If E-cigarette gets introduced to heavy smoker, it
can reduce the health risk by a considerable percentage.
As any person can control nicotine contain by switching to E-cigarette
cartridge with low nicotine, one can also think of quitting nicotine
completely by time with 0 MG nicotine refill.
Certain brands of E-cigarette have launched flavors which motivate
young nonsmoker’s adults; Government must ban those E-cigarette
flavors which motivates the promotion on E-cigarette.
There must be strict rules and regulation that E-cigarette must not get
circulated to under age people.
There should be strict rules for manufacturing of E-cigarettes, certain
brands use low quality material or doesn’t follow quality standard which
ensures accurate counting of nicotine in each cartridge of E-cig.
At last, if the ultimate goal is to reduce the tobacco and cigarette
consumption, E-cigarette are more effective than any other product and
smokers can easily give us smoking which is not possible with other
products.
