Electronic Cigs to Swap Traditional Cigarettes

Dr. Jonathan Winickoff, MD, MPH, chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Tobacco consortium utter concern that people who do not smoke, including children and young adults, may start with electronic cigarette thinking it is safe. As we all know, nicotine is a potent drug that fosters addiction, and unfortunately is what e-cigarettes contain. It simply cloaks in a liquid form and when heated becomes vapor that enables inhalation.

What was just mentioned is the very basic reality behind electronic cigarettes. However, like the legality of the traditional cigarettes which contain higher nicotine level, the authorities have ruled in favor of e-cigs. The FDA cannot regulate electronic cigarettes until litigation is over, unlike in the case of patch, lozenge, and the gum. District Court Judge of the District of Columbia Richard J Leon, on Sunday, January 14, 2010 ruled that there is no basis for FDA to regulate electronic cigarettes as they are merely an alternative to traditional cigarettes.

If the more nicotine-packed traditional cigarettes are legal, why not the e-cigarettes which according to a study show much lesser increase of nicotine content in the blood? The e-cigs seem to show that they are much safer than the traditional cigarettes. Now, the question is whether you will go for electronic cigs? What does the people in medical scrubs say about it? Is the government going to listen to health concerns and safety or listen to them only a little, reasoning that e-cigarettes actually help people cut on their smoking as well as reduce nicotine cravings?

"These devices may not be marketed for cessation, but anecdotally, that's what the public is using them for," said Thomas P Houston, MD, chair of the American Academy of Family Physicians' tobacco cessation advisory committee. And as the liquid nicotine refill for e-cigarettes is sold in bottles containing some 500 mg, there is a very big possibility or misuse and abuse, going over the standard one drop refill. In a sense, e-cigarettes may lead greater nicotine addiction problems.

In effect, nicotine vapor in electronic cigarettes is like the more portent drug methamphetamine including in a candy. The person may not notice how much candies he or she has been consuming. Unknowingly, then, instead of being able to quit smoking, the person is brought back to the same room of addiction but through another door.