Accidents involving kids and bottles of flavored liquid nicotine for e-cigarettes have led to a spike in calls to US poison control centers in recent years, health authorities said Thursday.
The Philippine Medical Association (PMA) has called on government regulators to put a temporarily halt to the sale of electronic cigarettes to the public pending a proper study and testing of their safety.
Is it advisable to shift from smoking cigarette sticks to electronic cigarettes (e-cigs)? For patients trying to quit smoking, are e-cigs really a better option?
E-cigarette flavoring chemicals and liquids can cause significant inflammation to monocytes, with many of the flavoring chemicals also causing significant cell death.
World No Tobacco Day 2018 reminds us all of the dangers of smoking and how it may affect our own health and those around us.
"They should not assume that e-cigarettes are harmless just because they don't produce smoke. The best thing that you can inhale is clean air," said an expert.
A new study has found that many teens using e-cigarettes appear to be inhaling significant quantities of nicotine without realizing.
Smoking kills. Everybody knows this, including hardcore smokers who can’t get through 10 minutes without taking a puff or two....
Cambodia has banned e-cigarettes and shisha pipes saying the increasingly popular products contain damaging levels of nicotine and are leading young people to take up smoking.
Teens who use alternative forms of tobacco, such as e-cigarettes, smokeless tobacco, or tobacco water pipes, are more likely to start smoking conventional cigarettes within a year.
