Which is more harmful, e-cigarettes or cigarettes?

E-cigarettes are more harmful than regular cigarettes.

Studies have shown that e-cigarettes are more harmful than regular cigarettes, and may affect immune system function, leading to a decrease in immunity, especially e-cigarettes with aromatic additives are the most serious. In addition, e-cigarette users are more likely to experience cardiac arrhythmias, heart attacks and sudden death. The WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic states that e-cigarettes are neither safe nor healthy, and that they can lead to a range of pathologies or poisonings in the human body due to the toxic substances and pollutants contained in the smoke from electronic nicotine delivery systems. Moreover, there is no good reason to prove that e-cigarettes help smokers quit.

The biggest danger of e-cigarettes is that they induce teenagers to take their first puffs, creating more smokers in the future. 71% of teenagers believe that e-cigarettes are safer than traditional cigarettes, and the lack of restrictions on e-cigarette advertising and sales channels has increased the purchase rate of minors, and 45.4% of e-cigarettes purchased by teenagers come mainly from the Internet.

Protection Measures

Out of the protection of minors, up to now, 30 countries around the world have banned the sale of any form of e-cigarette products; 36 countries have restricted the age of purchasing; and 54 countries have banned or restricted the use of e-cigarettes in public **** places. Experts have called for the addition of a clause banning e-cigarettes to the Law on the Protection of Minors, and e-cigarettes should be included in the scope of tobacco control and tobacco control regulations. Multi-sectoral supervision should be strengthened, the sale of e-cigarettes to minors to say "NO", to avoid the health of young people from the hazards of tobacco.

In order to stop the spread of e-cigarettes to minors, the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration and the State Administration for Market Supervision and Administration in August 2018 issued the "Circular on the Prohibition of the Sale of Electronic Cigarettes to Minors", which puts forward the idea that "there is a significant health and safety risk for minors smoking e-cigarettes, and that market players are not permitted to sell e-cigarettes to minors, and that all sectors of the society **** the same. protect minors from e-cigarettes."

On November 1, 2019, the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration and the State Administration for Market Supervision and Regulation issued the "Circular on Further Protection of Minors from E-Cigarettes", urging e-cigarette production and sales enterprises or individuals to promptly close e-cigarette Internet sales websites or clients, e-commerce platforms to promptly close e-cigarette stores and take e-cigarette products off the shelves in a timely manner, and e-cigarette production, sales enterprises or individuals to withdraw e-cigarette advertisements released through the Internet