EU countries agreed Tuesday on a push for stricter anti-smoking rules, backing bans on smoking and vaping in many outdoor areas including playgrounds and cafe patios. A recommendation inviting member states to crack down on second-hand smoke and vapor was adopted by health ministers from the blo...
meaning higher nicotine absorption was a result of second-hand vapor or smoke only. However, two children were excluded from the analysis for having a cotinine concentration that suggested they had vaped or smoked directly. Children exposed to both indoor smoking...
There is also a potential cancer risk of inhaling “second-hand” vape smoke. However, more research needs to be done. Studies have also shown that vapes can be especially bad for youths and adolescents. E-cigarettes can boost carcinogenic enzymes and increase the number of free ...
using oral substitutes such as gum, mentos, or sunflower seeds, journaling to release and organize thoughts during withdrawal, praying, intention-setting, or otherwise acknowledging and asking for help, and changing the narrative of being a “vaper...
Another part of the policy shift was that the agency recognized that while nicotine is highly addictive, delivery methods represent a "continuum of risk and is most harmful when delivered through smoke particles in combustible cigarettes" and the agency is trying to strike “an appropriate balance ...
Fig. 1. Policy ramifications for a smoke-free world: Life course approach. Elevating taxes on tobacco is a documented, cost-efficient approach to tobacco control and minimizing the negative health and economic impacts of tobacco consumption. A viable method to do this is through a uniform specifi...
In public places where smoking is prohibited, legislation should apply equally to cigarettes and e-cigarettes in order to protect non-smokers from deadly exposure to second-hand smoke. Also it is easier for enforcement, as the enforcer does not need to identify if the smoke is from cigarette ...
Dangerous chemicals and metals are found in vapor, but only in tiny quantities. The levels of toxicants are minute compared to those found in smoke, which means the dangers of secondhand vaping are less significant. What's in secondhand vapor? If you encounter people vaping inside a house, ...
There’s also a myth that second-hand vapor is just as dangerous as second-hand smoke. The truth is, second-hand vapor has been found to be much less harmful than second-hand smoke due to its lower levels of toxic substances. There’s a misconception that all e-liquids taste bad or ...
The movement of first-hand e-cigarette smoke in the human airway and its health risk was quantitatively analyzed by using PBPK-CFD hybrid analysis. Moreover, transfer phenomenon of the second-hand e-cigarette smoke in indoor space, and second-hand exposure risk were simultaneously estimated. We ...