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The report reviewed 16 laboratory studies that identified the components in electronic cigarette liquid and vapor. The authors found that carcinogen levels in electronic cigarettes are up to 1,000 times lower than in tobacco cigarettes. “The FDA and major anti-smoking groups keep saying that we don’t know anything about what is in electronic cigarettes,” Siegel said. “The truth is, we know a lot more about what is in electronic cigarettes than regular cigarettes.”
Since coming onto the market in the United States more than three years ago, electronic cigarettes have proven to be controversial. The FDA has threatened to ban the sell of e-cigarettes and six national anti-smoking groups – the American Cancer Society, American Heart Association, American Lung Association,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, American Legacy Foundation,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and Action on Smoking and Health – have also called for the removal of electronic cigarettes from the market. Their concerns are that the FDA has not evaluated any e-cigarettes for safety or effectiveness,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], that the devices contain dangerous chemicals, and that they are marketed toward children.
In December, however, a federal appeals court ruled that the FDA should regulate e-cigarettes as tobacco products rather than as drug-delivery devices, such as nicotine-replacement patches or gum. The latter undergo much more stringent FDA regulations. “Taking these products off the market would force thousands of users to return to cigarette smoking,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],” Siegel said. “Why would the FDA and the anti-smoking groups want to take an action that is going to seriously harm the public’s health?
The only ones who would be protected by a ban on e-cigarettes are the tobacco companies, as these new products represent the first real threat to their profits in decades.” The report also reviews preliminary evidence that electronic cigarettes can be effective in suppressing the urge to smoke,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], largely because they simulate the act of smoking a real cigarette. E-cigarettes might also offer an advantage over traditional nicotine delivery devices, the authors argue, because smoking-related stimuli alone have been found capable of suppressing tobacco abstinence symptoms for long periods of time.
Air quality in restaurants and taverns has improved 92 percent following this summer’s enactment of a statewide workplace smoking ban, according to a state report released this week. The report’s results also show that dangerous small-particle levels thought to cause cancer declined to safe levels, giving supporters of the law new ammunition for arguing in favor of the law’s potential public health benefits. “What that air quality study did was really support what we knew all along: That if we eliminated secondhand smoke from the environment, the air quality would go up,” said Dot Kalmon, coordinator for the Central Wisconsin Tobacco Free Coalition. And for tavern owners — even those who weren’t entirely in favor of the ban — the improved air quality is noticeable.
Ryan Schultz, owner of The Polack Inn tavern in Wausau and a smoker himself who initially thought bars should be allowed to choose if they allowed smoking, said he has enjoyed coming to work in a building that no longer is saturated with smoke every day. “There’s not nicotine on everything,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],” he said. “It’s different for sure.” The report, published by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services and the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center, measured air quality in more than 200 Wisconsin bars and restaurants both prior to and after the ban’s enactment.