Electronic cigarettes have not proven their effectiveness

• April 27, 2024

In the case of tobacco cigar substitutes, known as electronic cigars , its effectiveness as a method for give up smoking . The Spanish Society of Pneumology and Thoracic Surgery (Separ ) made the announcement before the great increase in sales of the product, the Spanish newspaper El País reports.

Electronic cigarettes are currently not sold in Australia, Canada, Germany or Switzerland. The Federal Drug and Food Administration (FDA in its acronym in English) analyzed theelectronic cigarettes, popularly known as e-cigarettes, and found agentscarcinogens (physical, chemical or biological agents that can act on living tissues and produce cancer) such as nitrosamines and di-ethylene-glycol.

Carlos Jiménez , responsible for the smoking area of ​​the Separ stated that "" Today, specialists can not recommend the electronic cigarette as a way of treatment for smoking and we believe that its use is not exempt from health risks because its harmlessness has not yet been demonstrated. "

Experts indicate that the use of e-cigarettes works better to control thesmoking habit, but not to abandon it, since it maintains the hand-mouth ritual and makes the total abandonment of consumption difficult.

The FDA has also announced that some brands of electronic cigarettes are sold as nicotine-free , but they do emit different concentrations of this substance. It reports that the use of some products causes acceleration of the cardiac pulse, dizziness, ulcers in the mouth, cough, diarrhea and damage to the throat.