E-cigarettes May (Not) Be A Healthy Alternative To Smoking
Tuesday, May 27, 2014 - 17:00
in Health & Medicine
When it comes to e-cigarettes, critics seem to prefer regular cigarettes. Or snuff. Or snus. Or they just want to ban behavior. And the biggest tool they have is the precautionary principle. Sure. are no known health effects so they worry about unknown potential ones. Smoking is, of course, bad. E-cigarettes are not smoking, it is instead a nicotine vapor. The number of people who have gotten lung cancer from nicotine vapor is zero, which is not evidence for much, but it is certainly not evidence it is harmful. Since even among lung cancer patients, 50 percent have never smoked, smoking itself is only a risk factor. E-cigarettes are not even that. read more