Necsync
Active Member
OTTAWA - Electronic cigarettes are just as dangerous as regular smokes, and should be just as carefully regulated, some MPs say.
Thousands of Canadians use e-cigarettes as part of a smoking cessation plan while others use them while at work or other places they're not allowed to smoke.
A Commons health committee heard Tuesday that some doctors say e-cigarettes can be a useful tool to help smokers kick the habit.
But Conservative MP Terence Young said he was not convinced.
"E-cigarettes are better than death -- that is not a great endorsement," Young said.
Electronic cigarettes are tubelike devices that look like cigarettes. Inside, a heating element vaporizes a liquid solution that is then inhaled. A starter package sells for around $75.
But the cartridges that hold the flavoured "juice" that becomes vapourized contain propylene glycol - a chemical Barry Power, of the Canadian Pharmacists Association, said can contribute to heart disease and stroke.
Tory MP James Lunney said one of his biggest concerns is that e-cigs can be used with liquid marijuana.
"People are going online and learning how to smoke weed using e-cigarettes," he said.
"That's not good."
Dr. Milan Khara, of the smoking cessation clinic at Vancouver's general hospital, said Canada should follow the advice of the World Health Organization and limit advertising which targets non-smokers and children.
He also said that non-smokers need protection from the second-hand vapour of e-cigarettes.
Nova Scotia is considering banning the use of e-cigarettes at indoor public places and the sale of them to anyone under the age of 19.
http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/politics/archives/2014/11/20141104-192625.html
Thousands of Canadians use e-cigarettes as part of a smoking cessation plan while others use them while at work or other places they're not allowed to smoke.
A Commons health committee heard Tuesday that some doctors say e-cigarettes can be a useful tool to help smokers kick the habit.
But Conservative MP Terence Young said he was not convinced.
"E-cigarettes are better than death -- that is not a great endorsement," Young said.
Electronic cigarettes are tubelike devices that look like cigarettes. Inside, a heating element vaporizes a liquid solution that is then inhaled. A starter package sells for around $75.
But the cartridges that hold the flavoured "juice" that becomes vapourized contain propylene glycol - a chemical Barry Power, of the Canadian Pharmacists Association, said can contribute to heart disease and stroke.
Tory MP James Lunney said one of his biggest concerns is that e-cigs can be used with liquid marijuana.
"People are going online and learning how to smoke weed using e-cigarettes," he said.
"That's not good."
Dr. Milan Khara, of the smoking cessation clinic at Vancouver's general hospital, said Canada should follow the advice of the World Health Organization and limit advertising which targets non-smokers and children.
He also said that non-smokers need protection from the second-hand vapour of e-cigarettes.
Nova Scotia is considering banning the use of e-cigarettes at indoor public places and the sale of them to anyone under the age of 19.
http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/politics/archives/2014/11/20141104-192625.html
but he doesn't think it's ok. 
