Time to support Filipino vape law, not relitigate it
“Any concerns about youth vaping are well covered in last year’s landmark vape law. The Philippines has more than enough…
Public Health England, Guidance: Health matters: stopping smoking – what works?, December 2019
Key Points:
- The widespread misconception among smokers and health professionals that most of the harm of smoking comes from the nicotine is one of the greatest obstacles faced by Public Health England.
- Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) is a safe form of treatment and licensed for use even in pregnancy and for people with cardiovascular disease.
- Nicotine increases heart rate and blood pressure, and has a range of local irritant effects, but is not a carcinogen.
- It is the tar and carbon monoxide in cigarette smoke, along with more than 400 other toxins, that causes almost all of the harm of smoking.
- The three main causes of mortality from smoking are lung cancer, Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and cardiovascular disease, none of these are caused by nicotine.
- Using NRT or e-cigarettes (vaping) makes it one and a half times as likely a person will succeed in quitting.
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