Fad or revolution, new threats or solution for smokers ?
The e-cigarettes have made their place in society.
Is what they should be part of the list of tobacco products ? Is what they should be considered as drugs or is that those are just new tools to fight against smoking? For now, this little gadget smoky still raises many questions .
When talking about an e-cigarette , it refers to a new way of smoking : more discreet and healthy compared to the traditional cigarette. "Now , nobody knows where you smoke or you smoke ," say some users.
Thanks to the existence of electronic cigarettes , smokers can now enjoy more freedom . For example, on aircraft of certain airlines, vapoter an e- cigarette could be now easier than using a simple mobile phone.
According to some experts, the advent of the electronic cigarette begins to interfere with all the efforts of the past decade to respect the ban on smoking in public places. These skeptics experts believe that this could also contribute to an increase in smoking among minors, the use of marijuana and other illegal activities, development of this kind.
These small devices invented in 2003 operate using batteries and emit vapor instead of real smoke . Electronic cigarettes or tobacco smell when burned as traditional cigarettes , ashes or produce . The followers of this product has become very popular only a few years say that thanks to technological innovations it incorporates , it is really quiet in use and less harmful . The vapoteurs can " vapoter " where they want and when they want, without attracting the attention of others and without inconveniencing their environment very well.
However, legislators and public health officials fear that e- cigarettes are reminiscent of the traditional cigarettes in non -smoking areas and thus attract children . According to them, the fact that we still poorly understood components of the actual e- cigarette gives way to another fear : electronic cigarettes could contain anything other than nicotine may be other illegal substances.
" Would you like to see a 15 year old with a spray like an e- cigarette, but contains grass, a liquid version of marijuana? " Reproach Jeffrey Sanchez , a representative of the State of Massachusetts. Jeffrey Sanchez had drafted a law banning young people to buy electronic cigarettes and banning smoking in public places and workplaces . " You can spray anything in liquid form ," he says . Now that 20 states and Washington DC have legalized marijuana for medical use , Massachusetts and other states are preparing for the opening of dispensaries that sell solutions cannabis spray . It is true that it is difficult to distinguish the e- cigarette of marijuana vaporizers . Kiklas Thomas , the representative of an association of users of electronic cigarettes, which also represents the industry e-cigarette said none of its members does the use of marijuana : "It is something very different, " has he said.
Yet there are many companies that produce both types of products. There is for example the company Rapid Fire Marketing RFMK which manufactures spray CannaCig . "The reality is , whether cannabis or tobacco , you could use anything in a spray bottle to transform what is usually smoked in a vapor ," said his spokesman , Rick Lutz. "You could go out to a restaurant , have a good dose of cannabis with the desired effects but without the smoke ," said he added. But this company has established a promotion more oriented towards vapoteurs that cannabis smokers .
One of the reasons that prompted the state to make a lot of efforts to determine a regulatory framework for the new industry of e- cigarette is the fact that users of e- cigarettes may " vapoter " everywhere and discreetly : in workplaces , bars and even airplanes ... In short, in places where smoking is generally prohibited. Under current law in Massachusetts, " I can not light a cigarette , but I can turn my e-cigarette in the hallway of a school ," says Jeffrey Sanchez , adding that he would not even be able to prevent members of the House public Health Committee , which he chairs , smoking during meetings in his office.
But lately , the concern about e- cigarettes has focused on young people because in many states , minors can buy these products without verification of identity, while sales of traditional cigarettes and tobacco are reserved for those who have more than 18 years. Indeed, the number of minors who used e- cigarettes have more than doubled to nearly 2 million high school students between 2011 and 2012 , according to a report released last week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ) .
Where the laws prohibit the act of smoking , some people seem to use e- cigarettes only for mockery . While the actor Alec Baldwin was ejected from an airplane in 2011 for defying the ban on use of electronic devices on board by making games on smartphone in the toilet , passengers say they now were not disturbed in their vapotant e- cigarettes in the toilet or remaining in their seats.
The owner and president of a company that sells e-cigarettes end up even said he had a pilot project aimed at customers who want to use e-cigarettes in the cockpit for the major airlines.
