In 2015, the British Department of Public Health (PHE) officially announced that “electronic cigarette are at least 95% safer than smoking.”
In 2018, health officials confirmed this statement, and it was time to launch a new campaign called “Smoking is harmful to health”
Although the information of “95% safe e-cigarette” is spread around the world, most e-cigarette users are reading anti-science articles, which prompted PHE to make this statement. Vape VL will explore with you.
Why say “electronic cigarette are at least 95% safe”?
The story began in 2014, when PHE requested to submit an investigation report on the health impact of electronic cigarette.
A year later, John Briton and Iles Bogdanovicka of the University of Nottingham Tobacco and Alcohol Research Center wrote a 2015 report.
After reviewing the report, PHE officially said, “The risk of using Vape products in the existing market is very low, which may be far lower than smoking.”
Why is the title “Electronic cigarette are at least 95% safe”
The source number of safer electronic cigarettes is 95D44, in order to better understand the source of the statement “at least 95% safe”
Another study was conducted by an international expert group led by independent scientific medical research.
Then, researchers developed a “multiple criteria decision analysis model” to understand the relative importance of different types of hazards associated with the use of products containing nicotine.
After analyzing 12 products, 14 hazard standards were determined, of which 7 were harmful to users and 7 were harmful to people around.
The authors of the study used the scale to evaluate all products according to each global average hazard standard.
According to the standard, 100 is the most harmful product, and level 0 is considered as the least harmful product.
Demonstrate cleanliness
In order to confirm these results, the British government also studied compounds in steam, especially formaldehyde and acrylic acid.
The first study on these gases was a Japanese study first mentioned by the Japan Times in 2014.
“We tested different types of electronic cigarettes and found that their formaldehyde content was 10 times that of cigarettes.”
However, PHE explained that these toxic emissions only occur when the e-liquid is overheated (blackened). There is no clear scientific research on this issue.
A few months later, in January 2015, a similar study was published, which found that when using the third-generation steam automatic machine
“The formaldehyde level detected during smoking is 5-15 times higher than that of electronic cigarettes. Complete smoking in 3-4 seconds will cause discomfort.”
However, PHE’s response is to remind people that these results are obtained through mechanical tests, and electronic cigarettes have never been smoked so fast or for so long.
In addition, electronic cigarette users will instinctively feel strange smell when they exhale the unpleasant smell caused by e-liquid.
In the case of overheating of electronic e-liquid, the existence of these pollutants is undeniable, but once the color changes, how can people continue to absorb all the e-liquid?
