• Dr Caroline Beaumont, GP in Australia: “More than half of the patients who switched to vaping preferred to use less dangerous alternatives compared to traditional cigarettes.”
Amman – A number of doctors, specialists and public health experts called for the need to change policies to face the phenomenon of smoking worldwide, by promoting the distribution of smoke-free products, during a discussion session within the activities of the Nicotine Forum in A world held. in Poland.
At the start of the session, the moderator of the discussion session and director of an international consulting company, Clive Bates, said that there are still 1.1 billion smokers in the world, including 8 million who die every a year from smoking, and hundreds of thousands of people smoke. smokers are exposed to adverse health effects due to traditional smoking.
For her part, Australian GP, Dr Caroline Beaumont, shared the results of her experience in recommending smokeless products to smokers transitioning from using traditional cigarettes , revealing that more than half of her male patients switched to electronic smoking. This is between 30 and 50 years old. again if e-cigarettes are not available.
The former director of the Department of Alcohol and Drug Treatment Services at St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney, Australia, Dr. Alex Wodak, said that the annual number of deaths due to traditional smoking should be reduced, which is up to 8 million people, to be the ultimate goal of international efforts to address the smoking crisis, noting that the increase in deaths related to traditional smoking comes as a result of a lack of support for reduction policies risk, which requires the development of effective and integrated strategies.
For his part, the Director of the Vanderbilt Center for Cognitive Therapy, Dr. Paul Newhouse, emphasized the need to pay attention to the multiple use of nicotine, due to the presence of groups of smokers who do not want to stop smoking, in part. of a general procedure for applying the principle of risk reduction.
It should be noted that smoking tobacco by consuming products based on the burning formula is the main cause of diseases related to smoking when tobacco is burned, the temperature is between 900 and 950 degrees Celsius. Which leads to large amounts of toxic and carcinogenic chemicals However, in the case of using heated tobacco products or electronic cigarettes, the temperature does not exceed 350 degrees Celsius; This leads to fewer chemical reactions and thermal degradation, which is reflected in the reduction of many toxic and cancer-causing substances that come from burning tobacco in traditional cigarettes.
The results of the latest scientific research show that the emissions of toxins and harmful substances due to the burning of tobacco in traditional cigarettes are lower by about 94% or 96% when they switch to the consumption of heated tobacco or electronic cigarettes, which pass low risk. alternatives for smokers who do not want to quit smoking.
