Vapers Digest 8th May

Kiran Sidhu, Filter Magazine

It’s been a busy few weeks for health scares around vaping, with media distortion of a cancer-adjacent study and an unjustified claim about seizures from the World Health Organization. New research suggesting that vaping could lead to heart failure has also triggered headlines in the United States and United Kingdom.

This research, unveiled by the American College of Cardiology (ACC) in April and presented at the ACC conference in Atlanta that month, found that “people who used e-cigarettes at any point were 19% more likely to develop heart failure compared with people who had never used e-cigarettes.”

Experts Affirm that Nicotine is Innocent of Smoking-Related Diseases;

Tobacco Combustion Is Primary Cause of Health Problems

MENAFN

Dr. Garrett McGovern, General Practitioner specializing in addiction medicine said: “It is necessary to support the concept of harm reduction as a means of combating the health risks caused by traditional smoking.” Medical professionals and public health experts acknowledged the increasing shift in smokers’ transition from traditional cigarettes to using smoke-free products including e-cigarettes, heated tobacco, nicotine pouches, and oral nicotine. Dr. McGovern, further added that there is a growing popularity of e-cigarettes, as one of the innovative products that contribute to reducing the risks of burning tobacco.

Introduction to the Report: No Smoke, Less Harm

Tobacco Harm Reduction

In a world where the consequences of tobacco use are hampering the health of society, the need to come up with innovative strategies to effectively neutralise these impacts is very crucial. Indeed, Sweden remains a country that is a guiding case for the success of tobacco harm reduction. This report considers the “No Smoke, Less Harm” approach by reviewing Sweden’s use of smoke-free alternatives that contain nicotine and how that contributed to a much better improvement in the health outcomes of its citizens than other places in Europe.