E-Cigarettes Worth Try to Quit Smoking, Heart Group Says Electronic cigarettes are worth trying as a last option for smokers seeking to quit, the biggest U.S. heart health advocacy group said. The American Heart Association, in a policy statement released today, said physicians shouldn’t discourage e-cigarette use as a last resort to drop a smoking habit. E-cigarettes have leaped in popularity and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is weighing regulations for the devices in a market that could total as much as $5 billion next year. Doctors are uncertain what advice they should offer about the products, said Aruni Bhatnagar, lead writer of the policy statement from the Dallas-based nonprofit group and a professor of medicine at the University of Louisville in Kentucky. “If people cannot quit at all and have tried everything in the field, we would not discourage them,” Bhatnagar said of e-cigarettes. “It’s not something that we would suggest.” “We do not know for sure and the jury is still out whether or not these e-cigarettes are safe to use, so we do not say that they’re safe,” he said in a telephone interview. Source:bloomberg/news/2014-08-25/e-cigarettes-worth-try-to-quit-smoking-heart-group-says.html
Posted on: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 07:00:00 +0000
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