ASH Seeks Regulation of E-Cigarettes
A new device for addicted smokers who want to be able to get their nicotine fix by “smoking” in places where smoking is prohibited, and do so by exhaling a cloud of “smoke” made up of a chemical which is both toxic and addictive.
This new product, already being sold and used in many U.S. cities, is called an e-cigarette.
It doesn’t burn tobacco, but it does allow smokers to inhale – and to exhale into the air around them – the addictive substance nicotine which constricts blood vessels, increases the heart rate, and produces other changes in a body (especially in people not accustomed to it).
Most astonishingly, the product is currently not subject to any regulation, so we have no way of knowing what other chemicals might also be given off when the user exhales into the air.
