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Can Electronic Cigarettes Beat The Smoking Ban And Are They Better For Your Health?
Ontario's anti-smoking law is one of the toughest in the country. So is Toronto's own bylaw.
Both ban smoking in offices and enclosed spaces. And both force puffers to head outside for a butt - even in the dead of a -30C winter or the heat of a 40-plus humidex.
Smokers have been forced to grin and bear it all these years, while crying they've been discriminated against. And many have been looking for loopholes to get around the all encompassing bans. And now some think they've found it, thanks to an electronic cigarette.
If you are a smoker, you must know that not only nicotine harms your health. Cigarettes contain many harmful tars that can cause
If you are a smoker, you must know that not only nicotine harms your health. Cigarettes contain many harmful tars that can cause lung cancer and many other diseases
Health NZ E-cigarette Trial Results
The tests undertaken by the Clinical Trials Research Unit at Auckland University have been completed, and the results show that the e-cigarette “is effective in relieving smokers’ cravings for a tobacco cigarette”. Of course, we already knew that Here’s the Media Release from Health NZ:
The Ruyan® electronic cigarette, which provides nicotine for inhalation in the form of a harmless mist, is effective in relieving smokers’ cravings for a tobacco cigarette, according to New Zealand researchers.
Health benefits
Health benefits
NO pills...NO patches...NO gum...Just the e-cigarette!
Smoking affects how long you live. Smoking kills around 114,000 people in the UK each year and research shows that smoking reduces life expectancy by seven or eight years. Diseases that are directly attributable to smoking include lung cancer, cardiovascular disease and emphysema. Conventional cigarettes contain around 400 toxic substances. With an e-Cigarette, there is:
Electronic cigarette trial at Auckland uni looking for volunteers
Smokers are being asked to test their habit with an electronic cigarette which delivers nicotine without the harmful effects of tobacco, in an Auckland University study.
Researchers from the Clinical Trials Research Unit at the university are calling for volunteers from the Auckland area for the trial.
The trial is one of two aimed at smokers that the university is undertaking.
The investigator on the trial, Dr Hayden McRobbie, said he hoped research would show if the e-cigarette might provide nicotine faster than available nicotine replacement treatments.
Healthy Smoking New Zealand - sounds like a contradiction, doesn’t it? Or an oxymoron!
My name is Mark, and I’m a 35 year old smoker from Auckland, New Zealand. I started smoking cigarettes 20 years ago - a teenager being your typical rebellious teenager!
I was brought up around smokers - most of my immediate family were heavy smokers (parents, grandparents, aunties and uncles), and nothing would be thought of taking a long family drive in the car, widows wound up, both parents smoking furiously - I’m surprised my father could see through the smoke to drive!
The e-cigarette will be tested in Auckland next year to see if it is worth releasing in New Zealand
The e-cigarette will be tested in Auckland next year to see if it is worth releasing in New Zealand.
Smokers can puff legally at indoor bars and cafes with a battery-powered "electronic cigarette" because its nicotine hit comes in a vapour.
The Ministry of Health has confirmed that using the device would not breach the Smokefree Environments Act, which extended workplace smoking bans.
