Doctors have warned of the risk of products that are widely marketed as “electronic smoking alternatives”, stressing the emergence of serious health problems among its users, such as lung cell fibrosis, chest infections, and frequent colds, while the risks remain unknown due to the modernity of this type of smoking.
The Ministry of Health and Community Protection confirmed the implementation of the Tobacco Control Law No. (15) of 2009 and its executive regulations, to electronic tobacco products. She said that she is working to organize awareness and warn campaigns, as well as other tobacco products, in general.
She stressed that “it is forbidden to smoke the electronic cigarette in closed offices and places, as stipulated in the law.”
“Electronic smoking has become common between different Sunni segments, as it does not result in a smell, which enables them to easily keep it and use it.”
He pointed out that «the means of smoking contains unknown ingredients, as each company makes its products in a different way, and therefore not all of them are committed to one standard in the manufacturing process.
He stated that «many young people from electronic smoking users review clinics due to symptoms such as the recurrence of colds and chest infections, which some doctors in the specialty of public medicine may lose sight of the fact that the main reason behind them is electronic smoking, and it is discovered by chest doctors.
He stressed that «cigarettes with flavors contain chemicals that medical reports have proven very harmful, to the point that they may tear the lung membranes, and there are reports about young people with pulmonary failure due to them and also deaths,” noting that “these microfinances are unknown and not The codified is a great danger to the health of its consumers. ”
He pointed out that if the person is a smoker for tobacco, and he wants to quit it, he can be acceptable to use electronic smoking a transitional stage that helps to quit, whether it is hookah, cigarettes, or bloggers.
Consultant Chest Diseases, Associate Professor at Emirates University, Dr. Muhammad Al -Haqani, confirmed the marketing of e -cigarettes as one of the safest alternatives to traditional smoking, and that it is a way to help it, “However, studies have proven that whoever begins to use this type of cigarette continues to Using it of various kinds, to obtain nicotine, which causes addiction. ”
He pointed out that there are many harms resulting from electronic smoking, especially that “most of the young people are young, knowing that nicotine is one of the most addictive substances. The companies also provided their products with loved flavors to attract the largest number of users.
He also confirmed the discovery of harms resulting from electronic smoking, including fibrosis in the lung cells, where international reports were published on these cases, a few years after the start of their use, while the long -term damage is still unknown to doctors.
In turn, the Chest Diseases Consultant at the Emirates Medical Association, Dr. Shaina Al -Dhahiri, stated that electronic cigarette smokers are vulnerable to lung inflammation, advising not to use it as a substitute for tobacco, and resort to treatments based on medicines and other alternatives, such as gum and medical crumbs that give nicotine in limited proportions.
She added that most of the e -cigarette users fall within the young and adolescent category, which are attracted by flavors.
She confirmed the reception of chest diseases clinics patients suffering from health problems resulting from electronic smoking, most of whom have come to think that he was safe.
A recent report by the World Health Organization on tobacco and new nicotine products revealed that in recent years, he was promoted to heated tobacco products as “less harmful products” or products that could help people stop smoking traditional tobacco, stressing that heated tobacco products expose users to emissions Pasta, many of which cause cancer, and there is not currently enough data stating that it is less harmful than traditional cigarettes.
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• “The law prohibits its use in closed offices and areas and selling them under 18 years of age.”
Toxic substances
The World Health Organization stated in a report recently issued, that “similar to other tobacco products, heated tobacco products are toxic by virtue of their nature, and they contain carcinogenic materials, and they should be treated like any other tobacco product when it comes to setting policies on them,” noting that they are “It is products that secrete a spray that contains nicotine and toxic chemicals, often reinforced by flavors, which are launched when heating tobacco, and smokers inhaled them.”
Tobacco control
The Ministry of Health and Community Protection affirmed that the UAE is one of the leading countries to join the framework of the World Health Organization for Tobacco Control, and issued legislation in support of tobacco control procedures and adopted the best global practices, in order to ensure the health of society. Tobacco control is one of the most important priorities of the ministry that has developed an integrated strategy through the National Tobacco Control Program. The reduction of tobacco consumption was included in the national agenda indicators.
The Ministry explained that the results of the national health survey for the year 2018 showed the low level of smoking spread among adults from 11.1%, according to the results of the survey for the year 2010 to 9.1%.
The Ministry also worked, in cooperation with the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority, to block a number of websites that promote and sell electronic tobacco products for children and youth under 18 years, as well as launch a training program to enhance capabilities and skills for doctors to provide smoking quotation services of all kinds and derivatives, based on a unified guidance guide Consistency with the latest methods and methods of treatment available globally.
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