Who warns against electronic cigarettes!

In its seventh report on the global tobacco epidemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that e-cigarettes and tobacco heaters do not help fight cancer.

"Prevention of interventions in this industry is essential to reduce the harm caused by tobacco use," she said. "While there are stated and secret strategies … they all aim to weaken tobacco control efforts."

The industry was trying to gain respect through manipulative messages such as claims that its products were part of a "harm-reduction" strategy, although cigarettes still account for 97% of the global tobacco market, the report said. report.

Vinayak Prasad, program officer of the WHO's tobacco control unit, told reporters that the development of new products was aimed solely at expanding the markets of tobacco companies.

"There is no difference between cigarettes and tobacco heaters except with respect to exposure … the exposure is lower and the smoke invisible."

Electronic cigarettes, containing nicotine without tobacco, are encouraged as a way to stop smoking. But Prasad adds that there is no evidence to justify this claim, while evidence from the United States has shown that it has increased the prevalence of smoking among young people.