Det tycks rda en hel del frvirring ver hur stor den del av faran med cigarettrkning som hrstmmer frn just nikotinet verkligen r.
Det r ju fantastiskt bra att du, Skuggans, lyckades med att sluta rka, grattis! Men faktum r att det finns miljarder rkare som antingen inte kan eller mer vanligt inte vill sluta med tobaksprodukter helt och hllit, och d r det bara positivt att alternativ som snus, e-cigarett, nikotinmedel osv finns.
Jag bifogar ngra citat frn AAPHPs (American Association of Public Health Physicians och med std av extremt mnga hgt respekterade organisationer vrlden runt) omfattande rapport
The Case for Harm Reduction for Control of Tobacco-related Illness and Death , med urskt fr att de r p engelska men det knns fel att verstta ngot som anges som citat...de flesta svenskar r ju mycket bra p engelska annars finns det ju alltid Google Translate

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Were the worlds 1.3 billion cigarette smokers acquiring their nicotine from clean delivery systems rather than through repeated inhalation of smoke, nicotine use would likely not rank much higher than caffeine use as a public health priority
smokers smoke predominantly for nicotine, nicotine itself is not especially hazardous, and if nicotine could be provided in a form that is acceptable and effective as a cigarette substitute, millions of lives could be saved (frn Britain's Royal College of Physicians)
harm reduction principles to public health policies on tobacco/nicotine...has the potential to lead to one of the greatest public health breakthroughs in human history by fundamentally changing the forecast of a billion cigarette-caused deaths this century
Ecigarette users are not exposed to the many toxicants, carcinogens and abundant free radicals formed when tobacco is burned.
(Gllande e-cigarett) The ingredients themselves do not pose any significant health risks. Nicotine is one of the most intensively studied drugs in history; while it is highly addictive, it is not the primary cause of any of the diseases related to smoking.
Artikeln som lnkades till i frra inlgget r frn september 2008. Varningar frn den tiden berodde p att e-cigaretten var relativt ny och oknd, och d varnade man (med all rtt ju) fr att som ny produkt br den underskes vidare innan man tog fr givet att den var ofarlig.
Mycket har hnt sedan dess!