FDA Will Regulate E-Cigarettes as Tobacco

As what i'm concern, the E-Cigarettes is not a tobacco product..
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WHO warns the hookah may pose same risk as cigarettes

GENEVA (AP) — Water-pipe smoking may pose the same health risks as cigarettes, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, adding that more scientific research was needed into the link between hookah use and a number of fatal illnesses.

 

"Using a water pipe to smoke tobacco is not a safe alternative to cigarette smoking," the U.N. health agency said in a seven-page document on the practice. "Contrary to ancient lore and popular belief, the smoke that emerges from a water pipe contains numerous toxicants known to cause lung cancer, heart disease and other diseases."

The WHO "advisory note" warned that using water pipes to consume the tobacco, which is commonly a mixed with molasses and fruit flavors, usually exposes a person to more smoke over a longer period of time than do cigarettes. Preliminary research indicates that hookah smoking poses many of the same dangers as cigarettes and may involve "some unique health risks," the agency said.

A hookah is a bowl connected to a vase of water with a long tube and mouthpiece. The tobacco sits inside the bowl with a layer of foil and a hot coal on top. The tobacco is never lit, instead heated by the charcoal, which smokers say produces a vapor different from smoke.

The hookah, used for centuries in North Africa, the Middle East and Central and South Asia, has become increasingly popular in the United States, Europe and Brazil, particularly among college students and young adults.

WHO says the trend is partly due to "unfounded assumptions" of its safety, and misleading commercial marketing.

The agency said a person can inhale more than 100 times more smoke in a hookah session than in a single cigarette. By delivering nicotine, the water pipe can cause addiction.

"None of the accessories have been demonstrated to reduce smokers' exposure to toxins or risk of tobacco-related disease and death," WHO said.

While further research is required, the health body said those exposed to secondhand hookah smoke appeared to be at risk of the same diseases as those exposed to cigarettes. WHO warned that hookah smoke could also increase the risk of adverse effects during pregnancy.

The Claim: Hookahs Are Safer Than Cigarette

By ANAHAD O’CONNOR

Published: September 11, 2007

THE FACTS

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Leif Parsons

As cigarette bans have proliferated in recent years, hookah lounges have become a popular alternative, in part because the flavored smoke is believed to be less harmful than cigarette smoke. But research suggests otherwise.

It is true that in hookahs, also known as water pipes, the smoke is often flavored and filtered through water. The problem is that people who use hookahs typically inhale far more smoke than cigarette smokers, exposing them to potentially higher levels of nicotine, carbon monoxide and other chemicals. Most studies show that small water pipes produce the highest levels of carbon monoxide, followed by cigarettes and then large water pipes.

One extensive report on hookahs was published in 2005 by the World Health Organization. It found that in a single smoking session, cigarette smokers typically took 8 to 12 puffs and inhaled 0.5 to 0.6 liters of smoke over five to seven minutes. In contrast, hookah smokers may take 50 to 200 puffs of up to a liter of smoke each during a single session.

“The water pipe smoker may therefore inhale as much smoke during one session as a cigarette smoker would inhale consuming 100 or more cigarettes,” the report said.


Hookahs can be just as hazardous as cigarettes.

Hookah Use - 1st New Tobacco Use Trend of the 21st Century - American Lung Association

Hookah Use - 1st New Tobacco Use Trend of the 21st Century - American Lung Association

more information about global tobacco epidemic

just follow this link...
http://www.scribd.com/doc/41746482/Global-Tobacco-Epidemic

smoking: leading preventable cause of disease and death

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perokok dan pesakit mental

perokok juga merupakan pesakit...
mereka telah terjebak dgn rokok yg menagihkan ni...
mgkn pada awlnya mereka ni x de niat pn nk merokok...

dan..

majoriti remaja yg start merokok ni semuanya start dgn "nak try"..biasenye pengaruh kwn la...
mgkin waktu tu diorg xtau pn kesan rokok ni...

merokok juga diklasifikasikan sbg Mental and Behavioral Disorder di bwh WHO's International Classification of Disease (ICD-10) dan ia dikod sbg F17.2

klu korg nk tau lg pasal ICD-10 ni...
klik kt link kt bwh ye...
http://www.who.int/classifications/icd/en/GRNBOOK.pdf

pengguna tembakau adalh seorg penagih...yup..mmg penagih...sbb diorg ni penagih kpd nikotin yg terdpt di dlm rokok...dan..mereka ni tergolong di dlm golongan pesakit yg memerlukan rawatan...

Studies say electric cigarettes are not what they seem

Posted: 04/13/2011
Last Updated: 11 hours and 8 minutes ago

• Web produced by Amanda Kahan

Hollywood got Freda Souligny smoking at just 13.  Now 81, she had a pack-a-day habit for 61 years.
She stopped when emphysema led her to electric cigarettes two months ago.  Battery-operated, they deliver nicotine vapor through an adjustable cartridge, and cost about 60 bucks to start.
Freda kicked her habit by slowly cutting the nicotine dose over several weeks.  However, Professor Tom Eissenberg says e-cigs are misleading.
A pair of studies found while real cigarettes deliver nicotine, e-cigs do not - despite claiming to do so.  He says smoking an e-cig is just like puffing on an unlit cigarette - no nicotine, no tobacco , nothing.
Freda doesn't agree.
The studies do say e-cigs can cut the urge to smoke by nearly half.  So Freda's mind may be tricking her body - but she doesn't care.
Miraculous, or smoke-and-mirrors? It really doesn't matter as long as you quit.

more info...please go to the following link...
http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/health/medical_breakthroughs/studies-say-electric-cigarettes-are-not-what-they-seem

Fatwa pasal shisha

harap2 pihak jakim buat keputusan yg tepat...
 ye la..dah terang-terang..shisha tu worse than rokok...
sgt buruk...

org ckp bau shisha wangi...but for me...
i hate that smell..
x bleh thn la bau asap dier...

pasal rokok elektronik lak..xtau nk komen pe...
mmg perlukan research lg...

eC

do u know that e-C is not a tobacco product??

e-Cigarette

sekarang kecoh di malaysia mengatakan tentang rokok elektronik...
ada yang mengatakan ianya sebagai satu alngkah alternatif untuk berhenti merokok.tapi tahap keberkesanannya dan kesan jangka panjang masih belum diketahui

seharusnya masyarakat malaysia lebih peka dan membuat penyelidikan sendiri tentang rokok elektronik ini.

ia la...kalau tak..kesihatan anda sendiri yang akan terjejas..

tepuk dada, tanya la sendiri..huhuhu~