E-cig, le sigarette elettroniche non aiutano a smettere di fumare:uno studio italiano

blastingnews.com – 15 de Junio de 2015 – Italia

Le e-cig, non aiutano a smettere di fumare. Le sigarette elettroniche, presentate come la scoperta rivoluzionaria in grado di aiutare i tabagisti ad abbandonare il vizio del fumo, non sembrano in grado di assolvere al compito per le quali vengono pubblicizzate. E' questa la conclusione cui è giunta una ricerca italiana svolta da alcune università, tra cui Sapienza e Cattolica di Roma, Parthenope di Napoli e Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri e pubblicata sulla rivista scientifica Plos One.

La ricerca italiana sulle e-cig: come si è svolta.

Lo studio italiano sulle sigarette elettroniche è stato coordinato dall'Istituto Superiore della Sanità (Iss), che ha illustrato i risultati cui sono giunte le università impegnate nella ricerca attraverso il commissario straordinario Walter Ricciardi.

Lo studio, ha spiegato Ricciardi, è ancora in corso ed i risultati finali sono attesi entro il 2019, ma la necessità di avere elementi a disposizione utili per la formulazione di una normativa sulle e-cig in corso di definizione, ha spinto l'Iss a rendere noti i primi risultati dopo dodici mesi di osservazione. In questo periodo, sono stati esaminati 491 tabagisti tradizionali, 236 ex fumatori passati alle sigarette elettroniche e 232 fumatori di entrambi i tipi di sigarette.

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E-cig only facilitates quitters remaining so

west-info.eu – 15 de Junio de 2015 – Italia

Do e-cigarettes really work? According to the latest study on this subject, coordinated by the Italian National Institute of Health and published in PLOS One, not really. Nay, adding e-cigarettes to tobacco smoking did not facilitate smoking cessation or reduction, but if e-cigarette safety will be confirmed, however, the use of e-cigarettes alone may facilitate quitters remaining so. Follow-up data were available for 236 e-smokers, 491 tobacco smokers, and 232 dual smokers (overall response rate 70.8%). All e-smokers were tobacco ex-smokers. At 12 months, 61.9% of the e-smokers were still abstinent from tobacco smoking; 20.6% of the tobacco smokers and 22.0% of the dual smokers achieved tobacco abstinence. Adjusting for potential confounders, tobacco smoking abstinence or cessation remained significantly more likely among e-smokers, whereas adding e-cigarettes to tobacco smoking did not enhance the likelihood of quitting tobacco and did not reduce tobacco cigarette consumption. E-smokers showed a minimal but significantly higher increase in self-rated health than other...

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medicalnewstoday.com – 1 de septiembre de 2014 – Italia

'Increased levels of toxic metals' in e-cigarette secondhand smoke

he study - published in the Journal of Environmental Science, Processes and Impacts and led by co-author Prof. Constantinos Sioutas of USC - comes at a time when the World Health Organization (WHO) propose a ban on the use of e-cigarettes indoors.

Prof. Sioutas, along with colleagues at Fondazione IRCCS Instituto Nazionale dei Tumori (the National Institute of Cancer Research) in Milan, Italy, conducted the study to measure the level of exposure to harmful substances in secondhand smoke from e-cigarettes. By doing so, they hoped to provide regulatory authorities with valuable information.

They found that secondhand smoke from e-cigarettes has an overall 10-fold decrease in harmful particles and almost no organic carcinogens, which is likely because they do not burn organic material the way traditional cigarettes do.

But they also found that e-cigarette smoke contains chromium - a toxic element that is not present in traditional cigarettes - and nickel at levels four times higher than normal cigarettes.

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dnaindia.com.  Italia, 7 de Junio de 2013

Injurious to health? Italy may ban smoking e-cigarettes in public places

The Italian health ministry's top advisory body has recommended a ban on the smoking of electronic cigarettes in public places and their sale to pregnant women and minors. 

The recommendation by the ministry's Superior Health Council came after France's Health Minister Marisol Touraine said she was planning similar restrictions. 

"Smoking an e-cigarette is smoking," she stated. 

E-cigarettes contain an electronic inhaler that vaporises a liquid solution into an aerosol mist, simulating the act of tobacco smoking, and are marketed as a tool to help smokers quit tobacco. 

Although the devices are considered safer than smoking, doctors continue to debate the possible impact of some of the vapours' ingredients - including propylene glycol, which irritates airways, and formaldehyde, which is known to raise lung and nasal cancer risk. 

Doctors argue that more research is needed on e-cigarettes and their opponents also claim there is evidence they encourage children who have tried them to "graduate" to smoking real cigarettes. 

Several countries have already outlawed e-cigarettes including Turkey, Brazil, Argentina and Singapore.

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