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*Citation: Pankow JF, Kim K, McWhirter KJ, Luo W, Escobedo JO, Strongin RM, Duell AK, Peyton DH. Benzene formation in electronic cigarettes. PLoS One. 2017 Mar 8;12(3):e0173055. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0173055. PMID: 28273096; PMCID: PMC5342216. | *Citation: Pankow JF, Kim K, McWhirter KJ, Luo W, Escobedo JO, Strongin RM, Duell AK, Peyton DH. Benzene formation in electronic cigarettes. PLoS One. 2017 Mar 8;12(3):e0173055. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0173055. PMID: 28273096; PMCID: PMC5342216. | ||
===2016: Royal College of Physicians - Nicotine without Smoke=== | ===2016: [https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/projects/outputs/nicotine-without-smoke-tobacco-harm-reduction Royal College of Physicians - Nicotine without Smoke]=== | ||
*Provision of the nicotine that smokers are addicted to without the harmful components of tobacco smoke can prevent most of the harm from smoking. | *Provision of the nicotine that smokers are addicted to without the harmful components of tobacco smoke can prevent most of the harm from smoking. | ||
*The hazard to health arising from long-term vapour inhalation from the e-cigarettes available today is unlikely to exceed 5% of the harm from smoking tobacco. | *E-cigarettes are marketed as consumer products and are proving much more popular than NRT as a substitute and competitor for tobacco cigarettes. | ||
*E-cigarettes appear to be effective when used by smokers as an aid to quitting smoking. | |||
*The hazard to health arising from long-term vapour (vapor) inhalation from the e-cigarettes available today is unlikely to exceed 5% of the harm from smoking tobacco. | |||
*In the interests of public health it is important to promote the use of e-cigarettes, NRT and other non-tobacco nicotine products as widely as possible as a substitute for smoking… | *In the interests of public health it is important to promote the use of e-cigarettes, NRT and other non-tobacco nicotine products as widely as possible as a substitute for smoking… | ||
* | *[https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/file/3563/download PDF Version] | ||
*Citation: | *Citation: Royal College of Physicians. Nicotine without smoke: Tobacco harm reduction. London: RCP, 2016. | ||
===2016: A randomised, parallel group study to evaluate the safety profile of an electronic vapour product over 12 weeks=== | ===2016: A randomised, parallel group study to evaluate the safety profile of an electronic vapour product over 12 weeks=== | ||
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