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On the forums, the rumor spreads... The electronic cigarette would be the solution miracle to stop smoking! It is of the less what hear several societies marketing these products lets. But by turns, the French sanitary authorities and the world organization of health recommend the biggest prudence. The electronic cigarette reproduces the shape and the sensations of a classic cigarette. One finds inside this small prowess of miniaturization: a battery, a microprocessor, an atomizer and a cartridge destined to be sprayed and containing a liquid capable to contain the nicotine or the aromatic substances to basis of food additives or artificial aromas. To every puff, the liquid mixed to the inspired air is distributed as steam, that reproduces the smoke of a cigarette, and is inhaled by the user. ..The oms never guarantied the electronic cigarettesThe enterprises marketing electronic cigarettes generally describe these as a means to help the smokers to get rid of their dependence with regard to tobacco. Some were even as far as letting hear that the world organization of health (WHO) considered this technique as as legitimate as the surrogates nicotiniques (erasers to chew, the tablets and the stamps to the nicotine). A guaranty that yet no person responsible of the WHO ever granted to the cigarette électronique1. "The oms doesn't have scientific proofs permitting to confirm the innocuité and the efficiency of the product. The enterprises that market it should immediately withdraw their Web sites and other materials of information all indication letting suppose that the WHO considers these cigarettes like a means efficient and sure of severance tabagique (...) The electronic cigarette didn't give its proofs as replacement therapy of the nicotine" declares the thus Dr Ala Alwan, general Assistant manager loaded of the Group non transferable Illnesses and mental Health to the WHO. ..Electronic cigarette: no proved efficiency!The oms doesn't separate for as much the possibility that the electronic cigarette can be useful as means of severance. But the only way to know it is to achieve some tests. "If the enterprises marketing the electronic cigarette want to help the smokers to stop smoking, they must do the clinical studies and the analyses of toxicity imperatively and operate in a correct authorized setting" declares Douglas Bettcher, Director by interim of the initiative for a world without tobacco of the WHO. So much as it won't be made, the WHO cannot consider the electronic cigarette like a replacement suitable therapy of the nicotine.
United of the 12 to November 14, 2008, the group of survey of the WHO on the regulation of the tobacco products should study the particular case of the electronic cigarette. ..Electronic cigarette: the more prudent France againIn France, the French agency of sanitary security of the health products (Afssaps) and the General Direction of Health (DGS) 2 made a first analysis of the potential risks in July 2008. Observations: the electronic cigarettes can contain the chemical substances, as the propylène glycol, a solvent to the irritating power, or of the derivatives terpéniques, that could have an impact in case of epilepsy antecedents.
Their conclusion defers the one of the WHO thus little: "In the waiting of complementary data, and whereas on this day no product of this type has an Authorization of Marketing (AMM) or of an EC marking, the Afssaps and the General Direction of Health (DGS) recommend the biggest prudence to the users of electronic cigarettes." They warned in particular that the use of these electronic cigarettes is to avoid at the women who nurse because of the toxicity of some substances and the absence of relative data to their passage in the maternal milk. For the meantime, to stop smoking, he is therefore better to hold themselves of it to medicines that received an authorization of market in this indication: the surrogates nicotiniques under all their shapes (erasers, tablets, patchs, inhaleurs...), the Champix® and the Zyban ® or to the other methods that demonstrated their efficiency (therapy cognitivo-comportementale notably). But to stop smoking, it is above all, your incentive that will make the difference! 2008-12-09
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