Among the persons who smoke e-cigarettes, there is great uncertainty as to whether the product is harmful. And the doubt is greatest in the group who smokes e-cigarettes daily.
Here is the equivalent of 37 percent of the respondents ‘do not know’, when asked whether there is a risk of getting sick by using e-cigarettes.
It writes the Danish Health and medicines authority in a press release.
the Figures come from the latest report on the Danish smoking habit in 2019, which focuses on the use of e-cigarettes and heated tobacco.
Niels Sandø, enhedschef in the Danish Health and medicines authority, can well understand the doubts about e-cigaretternes harmfulness.
– We do not know the long-term helbredskonsekvenser of e-cigarettes yet.
But studies of e-liquids and particulate matter, which is formed by heating, shows the content of chemical substances with harmful health effects, says Niels Sandø in the press release.
In the report, it also found that 59 percent of the danes, who smoke e-cigarettes want to stop smoking them.
Previously, the Board estimated that three percent of the Danish population use e-cigarettes, and that the product is most widespread among young people.
the Study of the danes ‘ smoking habits based on the response from 11.945 representatively selected persons aged 15 to 79 years.
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