Saving a Million Lives Using E-Liquids
According to a BBC report, health experts from UCL assert that it is possible to save a million lives using electronic cigarettes, and Professor Robert West says that the question would just be how to realize such a goal. He spoke at London's Royal Society where a huge number of scientists and law-makers had gathered.
It is still unfathomable how the development of e-cigarettes has been doubling every year. About 13% of smokers are using the device, which simulates the process of smoking through heating up e-liquid solutions of propylene glycol and vegetable glycerin in a chamber known as the cartomizer. During the Royal Society of London conference, a number of individuals were seen vaping right inside the hall, probably showing the support they have for the e-cigarette.
What Is Saving Lives?
The idea of saving a million lives may not be clearly understood. This is because we are having some debates on whether the e-ciggies should be in the market in the first place. Since the e-liquids are not under the tobacco laws of any country, it is feared that lack of regulation on this product could result in manufacturers producing e-juice with poisonous substances in them. Other than addressing the problem of thousands of people dying from tobacco related deaths, the devices themselves aggravate the problem.
On the other hand, saving lives could be achieved through the replacement of tobacco with the e-liquids. It is documented that smokers almost always die at least 10 years earlier than non-smokers. This means that if you quit smoking for vaping, you will live a little bit longer, and the e-liquid could save your life.
How Can We Save Lives Using E-Cigarettes?
Smoking destroys literally every part of your body: your lungs, heart, kidneys, blood vessels and so on. Death from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer and cardiovascular complications are very common in smokers. If the figure of smokers dropped by 50%, then we could be able to achieve saving a million lives.
E-liquids are meant to contain flavour and the diluent only so that the user will only have the illusion of smoking created, but won’t have to deal with any health problems as a result of the vaping process.
