Who smoke regular cigarettes on top of using ego electronic cigarette-Priceangels.com

16/09/2013 17:05

 

That's how many adults have actually tried an ego electronic cigarette since their debut. While their perks is what draws people to them, many health officials are still confused on how they really effect our health.They're supposed to help you curve your nicotine addiction, and eventually help you quit. While some of you find them extremely convenient, others think a cigarette is still a cigarette."They're really convenient. If you want to smoke a cigarette, you can do that without having to leave," said Luke Mitchell, who uses electronic cigarettes.

"I don't see the difference. I know people who smoke regular cigarettes on top of using e-cigarettes," said Brandi Bonnet," Morgantown resident.Officials estimate 1 in 10 high school students have tried an "E-Cig." While that doesn't sound like that many, it's actually double from what it was in 2011. On the other side, a study by the CDC found 90% of smokers who started using them said they have helped them put down cigarette habit altogether.

"As an adult, you have to understand the risks that come along with using an e-cigarette, just like with a regular cigarette," said Christopher Rassmussen, Morgantown resident.The world's biggest tobacco firms are pouring millions into electronic cigarette advertising, bringing back the cigarette commercials that were banned in the 1990s. Tobacco companies have already spent £11.5million advertising 'smoking deterrent products' in the UK this year - including e-cigarettes and nicotine patches - beating last year's £13.6million record.

Sales of electronic cigarettes have risen tenfold in the last year, labelled as a 'healthy' alternative to smoking and promoted by celebrities who have taken them up.Existing advertising rules ban tobacco products from being promoted, but there are no rules against depicting cigarettes.British American Tobacco, the maker of Lucky Strike and Benson & Hedges, was the first tobacco company to launch an e-cigarette in Britain in July, and Philip Morris International, the world’s biggest tobacco company, is due to launch e-cigarette soon.

Imperial Tobacco, the maker of Davidoff, has an electronic cigarette coming out next year.Around 1.3million Britons have taken up 'vaping' - inhaling nicotine vapours given out by the battery-powered plastic devices, which contain liquid nicotine.Electronic cigarettes are a replacement for actual cigarettes that may help people to quit smoking, but how effective are they?E-cigarettes are reusable and battery operated, and they work by heating up liquid nicotine that turns into a vapor that the user inhales.dfdWG4fa 

Although electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes don’t contain as many harmful ingredients as the real thing, they do contain chemicals that can be hazardous to your health.Researchers randomized the participants into three groups: 289 tried the e-cigarettes, 295 used the nicotine patch, and 73 people got a placebo e-cigarette. The results at six months found that the electronic cigarettes were slightly more effective at helping people abstain from smoking than the nicotine patch; 7.3 percent of the e-cigarette users succeeded versus 5.8 percent for the patch.

The researchers concluded, that while c-cigarettes were slightly more effective than the nicotine patch, more studies are necessary to determine the overall benefit and harms of electronic cigarettes.Although electronic cigarettes maybe helping smokers quit, they are also encouraging teenagers to try the new fad.Electronic cigarettes come in a variety of flavors such as cookies and cream milkshake, strawberry, and cherry. Since they are not a tobacco product, teenagers in many parts of the country can buy them, in stores or online.

To determine whether or not e-cigarettes are increasing in use by the United States’ youth, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) looked at data from the 2011 and 2012 National Youth Tobacco Survey. The National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS) is given to kids in middle and high school and asks them to estimate their use of e-cigarettes, if at all. The survey also asks the same questions about conventional cigarettes.

Researchers complied the data from the NYTS and found that among middle schoolers, the number of kids who have tried e-cigarettes increased from 1.4 percent to 2.7 percent, and the number of kids who are current users increased from 0.6 percent to 1.1 percent.Use among high school kids is increasing as well. Researchers found that the number of teens who have tried e-cigarettes has increased from 4.7 percent to 10 percent, and the number of current users has increased from 1.2 percent to 2.2 percent.Overall recent use and 
ego t electronic cigarette experimentation doubled among U.S. middle and high school students during 2011 -2012. This results in an estimated 1.7 million more students trying out or habitually using e-cigarettes in 2012.