New Zealand Researcher: Electronic Cigarettes 100-1000 times safer than cigarettes

(continued from Positive News from the New Zealand for E-Cigarettes )

Murray Laugesen, a New Zealand doctor, dismisses health concerns about the electronic cigarette with contempt according to an article in the New Zealand Herald.

“Dr Laugesen says his research of both the nicotine liquid and the vapour shows there is little to worry about.

“He concludes that “inhaling mist from the e-cigarette is rated several orders of magnitude (100 to 1000 times) less dangerous than smoking tobacco cigarettes”.”

His arguments are based on the following:

• the electronic cigarette works at a far lower temperature than cigarettes
• that there are far fewer chemicals in an electronic cigarette

Read the full story on the New Zealand Herald, or see our interview with Murray Laugesen here.

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