First Steps out of Smoking by Simon Atkins

Author:Simon Atkins
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lion Hudson
Published: 2013-02-03T16:00:00+00:00

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E-cigarettes

I first became aware of e-cigarettes about five years ago on a flight from Bristol to Dublin, when the head stewardess announced over the tannoy that her colleagues would soon be passing through the cabin offering smokers the chance to purchase one of these revolutionary gadgets. They would, she informed us, allow them to have a smoke on the plane and beat the cravings they would normally have for a traditional cigarette, which they would obviously not be able to enjoy until they had collected their baggage and left the terminal building at Dublin airport.

A few hands went up, but these e-cigarettes were too far away for me to see what they looked like and what electronic smoking actually entailed. Now, of course, they are everywhere – 3 million of them were sold in the UK alone in 2012. In June 2013 the British government said they were looking to regulate them in the same way as nicotine replacement medications.

So, what are e-cigarettes, do they help smokers quit, and are they safe?

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