Never the twain shall meet. Minister Ambrose,call your Standing Committee on Health.
There is now a sufficient body of evidence available on several aspects and effects of EC for recent reviews to conclude that health care professionals and public health bodies should encourage smokers who cannot stop smoking using available treatments, or do not want to do so, to switch to EC [2],[3].
Emerging trends are as expected. In the UK where EC are available and taken up by sufficient numbers of smokers, quit rates are increasing and decline in smoking, especially among young people, is accelerating [19]-[21].
Via, Taste Your Juice
Buricrats making you sign a mountian of forms just to put of a jungle gym for your kids only to have it rejected becuase some dumb endangred reptile lives in the neighborhood
Where is John Galt ?
I’ve been recommending safer forms of nicotine to my patients for over 15 years. It’s now been almost 40 years since I quit cigarettes but something was missing. That’s when I discovered nicotine patches and use them regularly. Get the nice mental clarity that nicotine gave without the lung side effects.
There’s a significant minority of smokers who’ve just smoked too long to give up inhaled nicotine and, for such individuals, E-cigarettes are ideal. For the even smaller minority of individuals who can’t give up cigarettes at all, who have severe COPD, and are on home O2, I just hope they have the room in their house they smoke in lined with asbestos to minimize the damage to adjacent buildings should they have an accident with the cigarette and O2.
To show that there’s absolutely no rationality in this debate, in BC, IHA has recently banned the use of E-cigarettes on any hospital property. Thus, patients will still be forced to drag their IV poles through -20 C temperatures and snow to the edge of the hospital property if they want to have an E-cigarette. Alcohol, a far more dangerous drug than nicotine, is available in IHA hospital pharmacies but only nicotine inhalers are on formulary.
Having tried a nicotine inhaler, I found it worked only if one had very warm hands or had some means of pre-warming the inhaler. This is the last thing one wants to give to a nicotine addicted elderly patient who has Raynaud’s syndrome and it’s winter. What will be interesting when IHA has to deal with the problem of patients on medical cannabis utilizing vaporizers which I expect will be allowed in hospitals. This would be a great time to challenge the “smoke free” policy of IHA taking as the acceptable limit for hospital air particulate matter being that wafting from cigarettes smoked on the edge of hospital property. Given that summer forest fires are a common occurrence in this part of BC, the smoke free policy for IHA hospitals should mandate that they be shut down at such times as the levels of fine particulates in the air are hundreds of times higher than the levels produced by cigarette smoking; even on hospital property.
BC is also a province which has mandated compulsory influenza vaccine for all physcians, nurses and other people who work in hospitals. Have a nice gorilla mask I was going to wear as I refuse to get influenza vaccine if I’m told I have to do it, but am instead just ignoring the whole process as I expect that the head of medical staff won’t ask me if I got the vaccine and I won’t tell anyone that I haven’t. Interestingly, the CDC has data which show that the influenza vaccine is only 56% effective once one is over 50 and more and more ineffective as one gets older. I have a stockpile of Relenza in case I get influenza but such rational actions mean absolutely nothing to the public health totalitarians.
The book The Nazi War on Cancer demonstrates the roots of the “public health” totalitarian policies that we’re seeing now. Such people won’t respond to reason so the only way to deal with them is via a mass civil disobedience campaign and ridicule.