WHO Has Not Recommend Use of Electric Cigarettes

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JOGJA - The World Health Organization (WHO) is currently not recommending the use of e-cigarettes because in several studies in e-cigarettes found substances that can be toxic and carcinogenic.

The term used by the World Health Organization (WHO) is the electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS), because there is nicotine in the form of steam which is then inhaled.

Referring to the BPOM test results, on the seven liquid brands that were sold, four of them showed different levels of positive nicotine levels than those listed on the label.

Reporting from tribunjogja.com, internal medicine specialist and pulmonary consultant (KP) senior Dr. Sardjito General Hospital, Dr. Sumardi Sp. PD (K) said that electric smoking is the same as conventional smoking by burning tobacco. If smoked by smokers contains nicotine levels.

"It's the same as smoking, the same (the effect)," he said when met at Dr. Sardjito Hospital some time ago.

If conventional cigarettes are burned tobacco, then in an electric cigarette that is burned or heated is liquid or liquid.

According to Dr. Sumardi, if the liquid does not contain nicotine and only tastes, the effects will not be too disturbing. Although actually substances from the flavor are also not feasible to be sucked in by the lungs.

While for those who contain nicotine, it will be as dangerous as nicotine from conventional cigarettes.

 The nicotine can harm the organs of the body, even though it is synthetic nicotine.

"Nicotine affects the heart, the heart becomes easily coronary, blood vessels in the heart become narrow, easy heart attacks and high blood pressure. Nicotine leads to it," he explained.

Other body organs that will be affected by addictive substances or opiates are like the kidneys, brain and eyes. Whereas those that do not contain nicotine are less severe side effects.

While even though electric cigarettes emit what is called steam and not smoke, Dr. Sumardi assesses that it is just as dangerous, including for people who do not smoke, but inhale the steam.

If there is the term passive smoking on cigarettes, then in electric cigarettes there is a passive sucking expression.

"That person who does not suck, including being a passive sucker, is the same (dangerous), as long as it contains nicotine, then the exact same effect will also go to the heart, liver, mag, because nicotine also disrupts the stomach, stomach acid becomes a lot," he said.

So according to him there must be protection for the passive sucker, considering the impact of the danger is no less serious.

The content of electric cigarette liquid generally consists of four types of ingredients or mixtures. Like nicotine, propylene glycol, glycerin, water and flavor or flavor. According to Nugraha, a liquid maker for nicotine electric cigarettes is almost often used but depends on need.

  

"If needed with nicotine, it is usually a measured dose, for example 3 milligrams, 6 milligrams and so on. It certainly does not contain tar," he said.

They are all chemicals too. The nicotine content is also mentioned in liquid packaging. Electric cigarettes or also known as vapor are on the rise today, including in Yogyakarta. Even today, electromagnetic smoking has become a kind of trend and lifestyle in the city of Gudeg.

It can be seen how many electronic cigarette communities now appear and where vapor sales are built like a cafe, popping up everywhere. Electric smokers are also dominated by young people and adults.

Not only smokers, people who have never smoked tobacco before with an electronic cigarette are also interested in trying and finally smoking cigarettes.

There is an assumption that electric cigarettes are not dangerous compared to conventional cigarettes.

Electronic cigarettes are devices that function to convert chemical substances into steam and drain them into the lungs using electricity. Sumber_tribunjogja.com