We learned today that 7-Eleven is partnering with a company called Xhale 02 to distribute e-Hookah electronic cigarette products in stores across the U.S.
The rise of e-Hookah and other electronic cigarette products is another tactic for the tobacco industry to hook new users and sell more products by developing trendy, candy-flavored products.
E-Hookah claims to not contain any nicotine. But it does contain glycerin. As with many of the products in e-cigarettes, we don’t know very much about glycerin or the other chemicals in e-Hookah. We certainly don’t know much about its potential health risks. A quick internet search shows that glycerol is used in everything from cough syrups to laxatives, to snus.
Traditional hookah use has been linked to cancers (lung, oral, bladder), heart disease and other health risks including Tuberculosis and skin and tooth problems. We don’t know how e-Hookah will harm your health, and that’s a scary thing.
E-Hookah comes in a range of candy-like flavors: chocolate, vanilla, grape, peach, lemon-mint, watermelon, strawberry and blueberry. E-Hookah is also designed to look like a cigarette. The website brags that “an orange-colored light is often chosen for its visual resemblance to actual burning tobacco in the front of the cigarette.”
E-cigarettes are not safe. They also confuse people who see someone smoking with an e-cigarette and decide it’s OK to light up.
While Wisconsin does not have any 7-Eleven stores, we can be assured that e-Hookah will be here soon. Xhale 02’s website promises they “are continuously expanding into new retail outlets not only throughout the USA, but also internationally.” And you can easily order their products – and many others – online.
Do live near a 7-Eleven? Have you seen e-Hookah products in your neighborhood convenience stores?
Don’t let tobacco marketers fool you into thinking e-Hookah or other electronic cigarettes are “safe.” When it comes to e-cigarettes, what you don’t know can certainly hurt you.
"E-cigarettes are not safe. They also confuse people who see someone smoking with an e-cigarette and decide it’s OK to light up."
ReplyDeleteNothing is safe, citation required as to the objective harm e-cigarettes have, in contrast to traditional tobacco. I don't know this brand, but if you're a health official you KNOW propylene glycol has a track record for safety, specifically for inhalation, for over 50 years.
E-cigarettes have been in the market for over 5 years. If you don't know what's in them, you can ask, or better yet, get a sample and get a lab test like the manufacturers do.
A 5 year old can tell the difference between a "pretend cigarette" and a real one by sight, or by smell. Cigarettes are packed full of PAHs and can you can smell it a block away. E-cigarettes have little to no odor.
This argument is like suggesting we shouldn't drivers to drink root beer from brown glass bottles because it might confuse other drivers into thinking it's okay to have a beer on the road. We do have something called personal respectability. Smoking bans are well established, signs are posted, there is no excuse, and in cities where e-cigarettes are used it's not an issue.
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DeleteAs of December 1, 2009, the revised Virginia Clean Air Act required all restaurants and bars in the Commonwealth to go smoke-free. The Virginia State Health Department tried to pretend that the law prohibiting indoor smoking prevented the use of electronic smokefree-cigarettes and announced their intention to mis-enforce the law. Virginia citizens disagreed. State Delegate Christopher K. Peace asked the Attorney General's opinion. On April 27, 2010, AG Kenneth Cuccinelli published his response: "It is my opinion that using an e-cigarette does not fall within the definition of 'smoke' or 'smoking' for purposes of § 15.2-2820." There has been no confusion among the non-smokers mistaking vapor for smoke. Their nose knows when it is smelling smoke--or not. And there has been no confusion among the smokers. They step outside to light up. One would hope that the citizens of Wisconsin are every bit as smart as the citizens in Virginia. And one would also hope that the folks at Health First Wisconsin try to live up to the name of the organization. Smokers who can't give up using nicotine need less hazardous alternative sources. Otherwise, they will just keep smoking; and any organization that prefers that scenario is putting health last.
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ReplyDeleteWhen it comes to e-cigarettes, what Health First Wisconsin doesn't know know can certainly hurt smokers. Smokers: don't let self-proclaimed experts like HFW fool you into thinking that it is better for you to keep inhaling smoke than to switch to a product that has not been proven "safe."
ReplyDeleteRemember the story about the two hikers being chased by a bear? One asks, "Do you think you can outrun a bear?" The other responds, "I don't have to outrun the bear--I only have to outrun you!"
Similarly, to have a beneficial effect, any alternative to smoking--whether it is an e-cigarette, chewing nicotine gum, or even chewing on a toothpick--does not need to be 100% safe. It only needs to be less hazardous than inhaling smoke.
If inhaling vapor was more hazardous than inhaling smoke, we would be seeing evidence of that in the nation's Emergency Rooms. If it equally hazardous to inhaling smoke, people would be seeing no improvements in their health status. The fact that I can now laugh out loud without going into an embarrassing fit of coughing is proof enough for me that my health has improved since I switched from inhaling smoke to inhaling vapor nearly 3 years ago. An objective measure of that improvement is my peak-flow meter readings before and after. I shudder to think what my lung health would be like now, if I had continued smoking.
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ReplyDelete1.) Xhale is not part of the tobacco industry. It's part of a ever-growing industry that is trying to help 30 million americans find a safer alternative to smoking.
2.) They also responsibly state on their website that their products are intended for recreational use by responsible adult ONLY. 3.) E-Hookah is just a brand name, not what it actually is.
4.) Comparing e-cigarettes to a real hookah is like comparing apples and oranges. Hookahs incinerate tobacco that contains over 4,000 chemicals, on the other hand, e-cigarettes vaporize a liquid which contains approx 4 chemicals. PG (Propylene Glycol) and/or VG (Vegetable Glycerin), flavoring, and nicotine.
5.) "Confusing people" really…? I won't even respond to that statement.
BTW, I'm a person that had smoked for 30+ years. Since discovering e-cigarettes, I've been smoke-free for almost 2 years.
Using an electronic cigarette by the preponderance of the evidence available is at least 98% safer than smoking cigarettes. The nicotine in them though addictive, isn't the dangerous part of smoking as its on par with caffeine which is used widely. It is all of the added four thousand chemicals, and the process of burning them, that is highly dangerous for your health. Second hand smoke is dangerous for your health because they carry these chemicals in them. However the e-cigarette is a vapor, and there has been no evidence that this can harm a bystander as there is nothing in the vapor to harm a bystander with. The truth is that the e-cigarette is more effective for a person who wants to stop smoking than pharmaceutical products, with far less side effects, and a better success rate. Ironically, most of the side effects of using an electronic cigarette are the same ones people experience when they quit smoking.
ReplyDeletePeople that use the electronic cigarette are a vast minority, even compared to smokers. I find it hypocritical that you say that the e-cigarette is responsible for leading people to smoke, when the vast majority of people who do use the e-cigarette got there from giving up smoking cigarettes in the first place. People started smoking because cigarettes are out there, and its really that simple. It is very hard to mistake an electronic cigarette from a real one upon inspection, and many of them do not even look like a cigarette at all. They do not even have to contain nicotine in them at all, if the user choose them not to. Propellyne Glycol and Glycerol are found in medical inhalers and many other pharmceutical products. People have been using these for years, and there is no proof these harm anyone.
People who are trying to do the right thing, and do something less harmful to themselves and others are really getting the raw end of this deal. All they get is big pharmaceutical companies that are worried about their ineffective cessation products going under, to spring into action to protect their profits.
By means of regulatory capture of the FDA, and funding health organizations to include electronic cigarettes into smoking bans, all that happens when it succeeds is that it pushs people who would like to give up cigarettes right back to them.
The big tobacco companies have very little to do with this, they really have no reason to get involved, because they know if the pharmaceutical companies are successful in getting rid of these products, most of those people will go right back to buying cigarettes. There are not enough people using the e-cigarette to affect the bottom line of big tobacco enough for them to even consider it a real threat at the present time. They figure it is a great diversion from people who would like to see smoking come to an end. They don't support the cause of quitting, and are eagerly awaiting for their lost customers to return.
The reason there are flavors available for electronic cigarettes isn't the fact they are being promoted to children like you fear. The reason is that once a person has quit smoking for a week or so, they get thier sense of taste and smell back. And tobacco does not taste nor smell good to the majority of people once that happens.
The only people hurt by legislation that includes the electronic cigarette in bans that make them unusable in public places, are the people trying to stop smoking, by using something that absolutely is safer than smoking. I support exempting the electronic cigarette from the statewide indoor smoking bans, its the right thing to do.
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