Making it available in public places increases its consumption

Vaping fluids are "addictive"

E-cigarettes are no less dangerous than traditional smoking. Archival

The Abu Dhabi Public Health Center warned that vaping is closely linked to life-threatening diseases, most notably Evali disease and popcorn lung disease, while Dr. Humberto Choi, a pulmonologist at Cleveland Clinic, warned that some vaping liquids contain very high levels of nicotine, which makes them addictive, pointing out that the availability of electronic smoking in many public places, and the ease of dealing with electronic cigarettes and obtaining a quick puff from them, are among the things that facilitate their consumption and make it higher than the consumption of its conventional counterpart.

In detail, the Abu Dhabi Public Health Center confirmed that smoking using electronic nicotine delivery systems (electronic cigarette, electronic cigar, electronic hookah, vaping device), in addition to single-time vaping devices, poses a real danger to public health.

He stressed that «e-cigarettes are no less dangerous than traditional smoking, especially since many of their users get more nicotine than they may get from combustible tobacco products, in addition to the flavorings added to the product help increase addiction to it».

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and other international health agencies have warned of health risks that could result from vaping consumption.

He did not agree to the adoption of electronic smoking as a way to quit smoking, pointing out that «recent research has confirmed a direct link between electronic smoking and pulmonary popcorn disease, which can lead to death in some cases, and its symptoms are in the form of coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath and other respiratory problems».

He stressed that the use of tobacco and vaping leads to many diseases that affect the heart, liver and lungs, and smoking is a major risk factor for heart attacks, strokes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cancer (especially lung cancer) as well as causing vascular diseases and high blood pressure.

The center also warned against smoking around others, as it exposes them to multiple types of cancer and stroke, in addition to heart and lung diseases in adults. Children exposed to secondhand smoke are also more likely to develop sudden death syndrome, respiratory tract infection, ear cirrhosis, asthma, as well as lung impairment.

. For his part, Dr. Humberto Choi, a pulmonologist at the Cleveland Clinic, stressed that permanent or intermittent smoking, and vaporizing liquid nicotine, leads to health risks, noting that vaping, which is based on vaporizing liquid nicotine, poses a major challenge because its full effects on health are not yet known, despite its proven link to pneumonia, and to ensure that many of the mechanisms that cause problems in traditional smoking, are present in the same in vaping. He pointed out that «some vaping liquids contain very high levels of nicotine, which makes them addictive», pointing out that the availability of electronic smoking in many public places, and the ease of dealing with electronic cigarettes and obtaining a quick puff from them, are things that facilitate their consumption and make it higher than the consumption of its traditional counterpart.

The center stressed that nicotine in tobacco is responsible for smoking addiction because it causes changes in the brain that make the smoker want to smoke more and more, pointing out that the most important reasons that hinder the process of quitting smoking are the symptoms that accompany the decrease in nicotine in the body, as it includes easy arousal, nervousness, hostility, anxiety, frustration, difficulty concentrating, insomnia, low heart rate, in addition to increased appetite or weight gain.

Benefits of quitting smoking

The Abu Dhabi Public Health Center (ADPHC) has confirmed that stopping smoking is not easy, but there are many benefits of quitting smoking, which are reducing the risk of disease, disability or death from cancer, heart and lung disease, or peripheral vascular disease that may lead to amputation, protecting the health of those around you by not exposing them to involuntary smoking, and improving your fertility level.

The benefits of quitting smoking also include improved breathing and overall fitness, better food taste, improved skin and teeth, elimination of the repulsive smell of tobacco, and reduced risk of fires in homes. and lung.

"Some vaping liquids contain very high levels of nicotine."

• "No approval has been issued for the adoption of vaping as a means of smoking cessation."