Safer nicotine products

June 22, 2019

New Delhi, June 22, 2019 :

healthysoch :

  • E-cigarettes are estimated to be 95% safer than smoking cigarettes
  • Snus is not inhaled, so there is no risk of respiratory disease which accounts for nearly half of all smoking-related deaths; and no risk to bystanders. There is no significant association with premature deaths, diabetes, pancreatic and oral cancers, heart disease or strokes
  • It is estimated that by 2021, over 55 million people will be using e-cigarettes or heat-not-burn tobacco products and that the global market will be worth USD $35 billion
  • Use of heat-not-burn products in Japan has seen cigarette sales fall by 27% in two years, an unprecedented national decrease in smoking
  • In Sweden snus has been instrumental in reducing smoking related mortality to the lowest in the EU
  • If the EU ban on snus is lifted, then around 320,000 premature deaths a year could be prevented in the EU
  • As Norwegian smokers switch to snus, the smoking rate among young Norwegian women has dropped to a world record of 1%
  • Over 50% of the UK’s 3 million e-cigarette users are ex-smokers
  • 39 countries have inappropriately banned SNP including countries whose smoking prevalence is predicted to rise
  • 62 countries regulate e-cigarettes under tobacco legislation.

(Source: No Fire, No Smoke Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction, 2018 (2018). London: Knowledge-Action-Change)

Author : Dr KK AggarwalPadma Shri Awardee

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