Electronic cigarettes contain 1000 times less carcinogens than cigarettes, have few if any chemicals that are likely to be of concern and as a result are likely to be much safer. That’s the result of a review of 16 separate laboratory studies into the electronic cigarette titled: Electronic cigarettes as a harm reduction strategy for [...]

The UK Regulatory Policy Committee (RPC) has issued a withering criticism of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)’s consultation letter calling for the regulation of electronic cigarettes as a medicine, pointing out out that there is insufficient evidence that the electronic cigarette poses a risk to public health. The MHRA, while acknowledging the [...]

Health New Zealand doctor Murray Laugesen maintains the e-cigarettes is several order of magnitudes safer than conventional cigarettes.