Positive Findings in E-Cigarette Study Follow Bad News for Tobacco

MANCHESTER, England, September 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --

Two recent studies have shed a light on the future of smoking and where it truly lies. With smoking bans in place across Europe, Australia and the US in some form or another, and legislation expected in some parts of the world regarding how tobacco is marketed, pressure is already mounting on the tobacco industry, while electronic cigarettes are being lauded for the lack of negative side-effects they cause.

One of the latest studies into the relationship between tobacco smoking and health problems suggests that, even when they have quit smoking, those who have indulged in heavy tobacco smoking for a spell are twice as likely to suffer a brain haemorrhage that could prove fatal. Heavy smoking in this instance is defined as smoking over 20 cigarettes per day.

The research, conducted by Seoul National University Hospital, argues a that those still smoking at a heavy level may be as much as three times as likely to suffer a potentially fatal SAH (subarachnoid haemorrhage). These negative findings concerning tobacco come in the same week a study into the effects of electronic cigarettes on the heart which only has positive findings.

E Cigarettes such as those available from http://www.vipelectroniccigarette.co.uk are battery operated and simulate the smoking experience, providing a hit of nicotine independent of harmful tobacco smoke. The Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center in Athens recently found that such devices appear to have no impact on the heart - something that vindicates the switch to electronic cigarettes that many tobacco smokers have already made.

The team at VIP are keen to stress that e-cigarettes represent a healthier alternative to tobacco in an age when tobacco smoking itself is becoming increasingly marginalised. The devices sold deliver a nicotine vapour that mimics tobacco smoke and offers the hand-to-hand action of a physical cigarette familiar with smokers. 

The latest studies throw even more weight behind the concept that E Cigarettes may come to replace more traditionally forms of smoking over time.