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Electronic cigarette Vapor vs. Cigarette Smoke – A practical experiment
Electronic Cigarette Vapor vs. Cigarette Smoke
When people are smoking cigarettes, one of the biggest preaching points from non smokers is second hand smoke. We have now seen the dramatic negative effects of non-smokers who work in smokey envirnments for years and years. From cancer to lung deseise to heart demise, all by just breathing in second hand smoke.
I remember back as a smoker setting up a fan in the window of my office. I would smoke in my office and attempt to exhaust the tobacco smoke from the room with this window fan. The realiziation of just how disgusting tobacco smoke is came after a few months when I moved the fan from the window. There was a yellow brown stain in the exact dimensions of the fan on the screen, and it was disgusting! All I could think of was the inside of my lungs being coated with this disgusting film. This was after all just the second hand smoke from the room.
I’m sure many of you have had experiences like this, or other ones similar. Cleaning the inside of the glass of a car window after smoking in it, or even house windows and walls after years of smoking.
I watched a great YouTube Video – You can see it here – About an experiment someone does comparing the second hand cigarette smoke with second hand vapor from an electronic cigarette. While this is by no means a scientifically valid experiment, never the less, it becomes obvious very quickly in the experiment the difference between the vapor of an electronic cigarette and the smoke from a tobacco cigarette.
What this experimenter did is essentially run a full cigarette through some paper towel using the force of water coming out of a bottle. He then did the exact same thing using an electronic cigarette. With the paper towel with a tobacco cigarette, what you saw was very similar to what I was talking about with the yellow/brown disgusting sludge that built up with my window fan. With the electronic cigarette, the paper towel remained completely white. Here is a photo:
Now as I said in the beginning of this article, this is in no way a scientific experiment, however it is a pretty neat side by side comparision of e-cigarette vapor vs. tobacco smoke vapor that I think is really quite interesting.
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Health Canada moves to get read on e-cigarette use
Seven years after the first electronic cigarettes arrived in this country, Health Canada is finally taking steps to get a handle on the booming market for the controversial devices.
The department’s Controlled Substances and Tobacco Directorate proposes to award a contract, worth up to $232,000, to Montreal firm AC Nielsen to provide data on retail sales of e-cigarettes in Canada over the past two years, along with ongoing monthly totals.
In an email, Health Canada said the data will give the department up-to-date information on the number and type of e-cigarettes and nicotine-replacement therapy products sold in retail outlets, the companies involved and sales trends.
The information will support ongoing work by the Federal Tobacco Control Strategy “to track tobacco-related trends and emerging issues and commitment to continue the downward trend in smoking prevalence in Canada,” Health Canada said.
In 2012, 16 per cent of Canadians 15 and older smoked tobacco cigarettes, the lowest rate ever recorded and down from 25 per cent in 2001. Just 11 per cent of 15- to 19-year-olds were smokers, half as many as in 2001.
E-cigarettes are battery-powered devices that heat up a liquid containing nicotine or flavouring agents and dispense metered doses of mist to users.
The experience is akin to smoking but concentrations of cancer-causing chemicals in the mist are up to 1,000 times lower than in tobacco smoke.
In the U.S., sales of e-cigarettes, which first entered the North American market in 2007, are approaching $2 billion U.S. a year, and are expected to top $10 billion a year globally by 2017.
Though e-cigarettes are widely available here, no reliable sales figures exist in Canada. But in 2012, eight per cent of Canadians 15 and older reported having tried smokeless tobacco products, which include e-cigarettes.
The devices exist in a regulatory grey area in this country. While they can be sold legally, Health Canada has not approved nicotine e-cigarettes. In 2009, it advised Canadians not to use them, saying they “may pose health risks and have not been fully evaluated for safety, quality and efficacy by Health Canada.”
More recently, the department has been cracking down on businesses offering e-cigarettes with nicotine cartridges, ordering scores to stop selling them.
Supporters tout e-cigarettes as smoking cessation devices and replacements for traditional tobacco cigarettes. But others fear they could attract new users to tobacco and undercut decades of effort to stigmatize and restrict smoking.
In a recent policy brief, the Canadian Public Health Association said the challenge is that there are limited data to substantiate any of the claims made about e-cigarettes.
The paucity of reliable evidence “favours a prudent approach” to managing the sale of e-cigarettes, the association said, arguing that existing controls on their sale should be maintained pending additional research into their risks and efficacy as smoking cessation devices.
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Council to consider merits of banning e-cigarettes indoors
As sales of e-cigarettes continue to explode, one councillor wants the city to examine the possible health risks of the popular devices.
Coun. Diane Colley-Urquhart will bring a notice of motion to the council on Monday seeking a working group to look at the impacts of electronic cigarettes and whether they should be snuffed out in many of the same venues where tobacco smoke is prohibited.
Some jurisdictions in the United States, including New York City, have new legislation in place that bans the products in restaurants, bars and clubs (banning e-cigarettes indoors).
In the absence of any provincial direction on electronic smoking devices, Colley-Urquhart believes it’s important for action on the municipal level.
“To me, it’s a public health policy issue that we need to deal with,” she said. “People are promoting these as a smoking cessation substitute but a lot is unknown about the chemicals that are in them.”
With their glowing tips and exhaled mist, e-cigarettes are designed to simulate smoking. Depending on what kind of fluid cartridge — “juice” in e-cigarette jargon — they are loaded with, some deliver a hit of nicotine, while others use non-nicotine fluid in a variety of flavours.
Addiction treatment specialists, public health officials and tobacco control advocates are divided over whether e-cigarettes are useful smoking cessation aids.
In Alberta, government authorities say there is insufficient research on the health effects of battery-powered devices.
“We don’t have a policy on it yet,” Health Minister Fred Horne recently acknowledged.
“There just isn’t a lot of evidence, but we know this is something that is going to become more significant as more people use the products.”
Alberta Health Services has urged caution around electronic smoking devices, particularly those containing nicotine. In a brief report published in March 2012, the health authority warns that e-smokers can’t be sure what they are ingesting due to a “void of regulatory requirements for product design and content.”
The report cites studies done on U.S. products that found detectable levels of toxic chemicals in the vaporized liquids and variations in levels of nicotine.
But the debate continues. A different study south of the border suggests the second-hand effects of the vapour, at least, do not present the same health hazards as tobacco cigarettes.
In Calgary, stores that specialize in e-cigarettes and related products are popping up around the city.
At Vape World on trendy 17th Ave S.W., owner Alexander Sarvucci sees brisk business from people interested in trying the products, which contain flavoured liquids and vegetable glycerine.
Many are opting for them as an alternative to traditional cigarettes. “I call it a harm reduction tool. It’s something that prevents you from putting 4,000 chemicals into your body,” he said.
“I find most people are pretty accepting of them.”
Sarvucci is mystified as to why Colley-Urquhart is pushing for prohibitions on e-cigarette use.
“Obviously people shouldn’t be doing them in movie theatres where it is disrupting to others. I wouldn’t have an e-cigarette around children. But bylaws? It isn’t right,” he said.
He’d like to see cities like Calgary abstain from tougher rules until Health Canada conducts a 10-year-study.
But Colley-Urquhart believes the matter carries urgency. “There are things that people probably feel are a bigger priority,” she said.
“(But) much like the prostitution issue that I brought forward a couple of weeks ago, in the absence of the federal government or the province taking a lead on this, we need to get to work and take the lead ourselves at a community level.”
If approved, a working group would consult with AHS, Alberta Health and Wellness as well as other stakeholders and provide recommendations to the standing policy committee on community and protective services in September.
With files from The Canadian Press and the Edmonton Journal.
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© Copyright (c) The Calgary HeraldBy Tamara Gignac, Calgary Herald March 31, 2014