electronic cigarettes Are harmful or safe? The definite answer to this question still is not present: the researches confirming those one, other point of view, appear with an enviable regularity.
Researchers from Oncological institute JSC "ROSVELL" Park (Roswell Park Cancer Institute) under the leadership of Machiyey Govivecha (Maciej Goniewicz) came to a conclusion that refusal of the real cigarettes in favor of the electronic can affect really positively on health.
Scientists claim, what even in case electronic cigarettes will contain the same amount of nicotine, as the presents, cancerogenic and toxic substances in them will be much less.
authors came To such conclusions after made experiment with participation of 20 people who are daily smoking on the average within 12 years. For two weeks it was offered to them to refuse the real cigarettes and to use only the electronic. Scientists analyzed nicotine level in urine of participants of experiment, and also concentration of 17 substances which are derivatives of carcinogens and toxins.
in Only 2 weeks level of 12 of 17 analyzed substances significantly decreased: in certain cases it reached the level observed at people, absolutely refused cigarettes. However, concentration of nicotine remained former. All this specifies that the people preferring electronic cigarettes, to a lesser extent are affected by toxins and carcinogens.
However, researchers are not ready to declare safety of electronic cigarettes, explaining that while such cigarettes are insufficiently studied. Besides, there are much researches which results testify to harm of electronic cigarettes.