Expert Speaks Out in Favor of the Electronic Cigarette

“Electronic cigarettes are far safer than regular cigarettes, they can aid nicotine cessation and tobacco harm reduction and an FDA study against them is “pure propaganda.”

That’s the conclusion of one expert, Carl Phillips, an Associate Professor at the University of Alberta who runs the tobaccoharmreduction.org project in Canada.

In a wide ranging interview with ECigaretteDirect.co.uk, an online retailer of the electronic cigarette and an information resource website about e-cigarettes, Carl Phillips spoke on the issue of electronic cigarette safety, the threat of passive “vapor” smoking and the issue of quality control.

Regarding safety, he stated that:

“I think there’s absolutely no doubt that it [the e-cigarette] is a safer alternative to regular cigarettes.”

The Professor went on to explain that it would be unscientific to state that it was completely safe, and that there was a small risk of cardiovascular diseases from the long term use of nicotine.

This risk, he estimated, was around the same as the risk for drinking coffee, or around one percent of the risk of smoking regular cigarettes.

He acknowledged the existence of carcinogens in the electronic cigarette, but pointed out that the same carcinogens were also found in FDA approved nicotine cessation aids. In addition, the quantities of carcinogens found were:

“…so many orders of magnitude smaller than those, say, in smokeless tobacco, which has been shown to not cause a measurable risk of cancer, so we know that that doesn’t matter.”

Indeed, banning the electronic cigarettes based on the very low levels of carcinogens found in them would mean

banning half the food stuffs available, the Professor concluded.

The Professor did have some concerns, arguing that controls needed to be implemented

to ensure quality of product.

The full interview with Professor Phillips can be read here: www.ecigarettedirect.co.uk/carl

James Dunworth: www.ECigaretteDirect.co.uk

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