Wouldn't it be fun to get this one to the top of the Digg Health heap!
E-cigarettes reduce cancer risk
E-cigarettes reduce cancer risk
E-cigarette use reduces cancer risk
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This is the world's only e-smoking researcher speaking. Good article, but this one paragraph will drive our "I cut down" friends bonkers:
That bothered me too. It's worded in such a way that it sounds as using both is more harmful than continuing with 100% smoking, and that just does not make any sense. Let's ask Dr. Phillips about this. I think something is off in the math.
But look on the bright side, Bob. Most people don't get much beyond the headline, and the headline is good. If they do get beyond the headline, they often only read the first paragraph or too. The troublesome statement is at the very end.
I'm seriously thinking about legally imigrating to New Zealand. With all the intelligent approaches to sciense, medicene, and e-cigarettes; seems like what America is suppose to be.
And they did bring us Zena the Princess Warrior
And they did bring us Zena the Princess Warrior
What bothers me more about the statement was that it was based on a Norwegian study completed in 2002, before e figs were even a product. I could understand if they said using nicotine and smoking. However they used e cigs. It doesn't seem logical, but what do I know.
I could be wrong, Elaine, but I'm pretty sure it does not mean the use of both increases the health risk of just smoking cigarettes. I think it means that even using just that one cigarette increases the health risk as opposed to not smoking at all.
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The way I read it is that smoking even just one cigarette a day increases your chance of health problems by 50%. Considering that at least one study cited was published before e-cigs were invented, I don't think this is any reference to e-cigs but rather reinforcing the idea that just cutting down is not enough to gain the health benefits of quitting smoking.
You are correct, yvilla. In effect, it's saying that 100% cessation of smoking tobacco is required in order to ameliorate its effects and that switching 100% to e-cigs has the same effect as quitting smoking altogether.
This is a very good thing, and a very powerful argument for e-cigs.
This is a very good thing, and a very powerful argument for e-cigs.
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