E-cigarettes are once again in the spotlight.
On May 22, Ding Ming, chairman and CEO of Bei Pharmaceutical Co LTD, suggested that China should gradually ban the production and sale of e-cigarettes as they gradually become a new source of public health hazards and environmental pollution.
There was an uproar. For the industry, that means bringing e-cigarettes to an early end.
Let's see what ding Mou Ming is: the development of anti-lung cancer drugs.
According to public information, Ding Mou Ming gave up his life and work in the United States in 2002 and returned to China to start his own business. He has been doing the same thing for more than ten years: developing anti-lung cancer drugs with Independent intellectual property rights in China.
In 2011, Bei pharmaceutical successfully developed China's first small molecule targeted anticancer drug kaina with independent intellectual property rights.
More than 230,000 lung cancer patients have taken kaina since its launch. Bei pharmaceutical in the first quarter of 2020 financial results, the company achieved total operating revenue of 650 million yuan, bei pharmaceutical products a tinib (trade name: kaina) sales growth, single product sales revenue reached 63,404.2 million yuan (about 97% of the total revenue).
However, puzzling is, ding chairman of the lung cancer how to fight to electronic cigarette butt? You want to fight cancer, you don't have to start with traditional tobacco? Or do you want to kill me?
Back to the age-old question of the dangers of e-cigarettes, let's rehash the subject.
First of all, e-cigarettes are not harmless, but they are a very good harm reduction product compared to traditional tobacco.
Zhi Xiuyi, a professor from the Department of Oncology, Capital Medical University, wrote in his paper "An Analysis of the Epidemiology of Lung Cancer in China" :
A large number of epidemiological studies have proved the close relationship between smoking and the occurrence of lung cancer, and smoking keeps increasing the incidence and mortality of lung cancer. Of lung cancer deaths, 87 per cent are caused by smoking, including passive smoking. Eighty percent of lung cancer deaths in men and 75 percent in women are related to smoking.
What about the cancer rate of e-cigarettes?
Dr William E. Stephens of the University of St Andrews, UK, who conducted the study "Comparing the cancer risk of vaping with volatile nicotine Products in tobacco", concluded that "the potential impact of vaping is less than 1% of that of regular cigarettes and within two orders of magnitude of medical nicotine inhalers".
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E-cigarettes have only been bouncing around for a few days. Traditional tobacco is the big brother. When the sky falls, traditional tobacco will support it, right?
But take a closer look, misunderstanding. Ding recounted the charges against e-cigarettes, but there was no mention that they caused lung cancer.
So what are the offenses against e-cigarettes? There are two main things:
"Ding indicated that e-cigarettes were once regarded as a substitute for traditional tobacco, but the investigation found that e-cigarettes have potential major health and safety risks, not only popular among teenagers, but also harm the public environment and public health, as well as smoking cessation effectiveness is not high.
"Vaping requires no lighting and can circumvent smoking bans in public places. "The presence of formaldehyde and acrolein in the aerosol of e-cigarettes may cause DNA damage and mutagenicity in humans, so the use of e-cigarettes does not eliminate the damage to public health caused by 'second-hand smoke' in public places." Ding mou Ming said.
In this way, chairman Ding, who has devoted himself to the research of anti-lung cancer drugs for more than ten years, still cares about the health of teenagers and public places, I admire!
The problem is, none of your charges hold up!
Studies separately show that, first, not only is there no evidence that e-cigarettes cause teenagers to smoke, on the contrary, since e-cigarettes became popular in the United States, the rate of smoking among American teenagers has accelerated, and now the smoking rate is at a record low.
Second, in terms of public health hazards, based on the available evidence, the ranking of products exposed to harmful and potentially harmful chemicals is: cigarettes & GT; Heating non-burning tobacco products & GT; Nicotine e-cigarettes.
Third, users who use e-cigarettes under normal conditions will not reach dangerous levels of formaldehyde.
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Are e-cigarettes guilty
Let's start with the first charge. Ding cited a study by the World Health Organization that said e-cigarettes contain nicotine, which can easily lead to addiction among teenagers and affect the normal development of their brains. "Adolescents who use e-cigarettes are more likely to use regular tobacco and may even be tempted to try other addictive drugs such as cocaine."
First of all, let's ask Chairman Ding a question. Why do teenagers who have never smoked cigarettes use e-cigarettes? In a study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Farsalinos, M.D., et al., found that teens who had never smoked were less likely to use e-cigarettes.
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So are the 0.2 percent of teens who stray from e-cigarettes more likely to switch to regular tobacco?
The answer is no. According to Vapingpost, a Study conducted in France to determine "whether e-cigarettes increase the likelihood that e-cigarette users will become smokers" suggests the opposite.Researchers found no evidence that e-cigarettes cause smoking, whether used before or after smoking.
There is no one alone. There is no evidence that e-cigarettes have led to a rise in teenage smoking, according to a Report by Public Health England published on the UK government website 8 Things to Know About E-cigarettes in March.
That is to say, floret is a good boy, one day she accidentally smoked electronic cigarettes, but she will not therefore turn to traditional tobacco, electronic cigarettes, traditional cigarettes, but will not follow Liu Ermazi to smoke marijuana.
Not only is there no evidence that e-cigarettes have led to an increase in teen smoking, but research by Farsalinos et al shows that the decline in teen smoking in the United States has accelerated since e-cigarettes became popular in the United States, and the smoking rate is now at a record low.
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I ergou was originally a social youth with cigarette butts in his mouth, but one day I saw e-cigarettes. I thought it was also good, so I threw away the cigarette butts and switched to e-cigarettes -- thus, there was a head less in the traditional smoking youth, and I ergou more in the e-cigarette youth users.
So, you can't just mention the "rise in teen vaping" without the continued decline in teen smoking of traditional tobacco? Isn't that hooliganism?
Look at the second charge. "E-cigarettes pose major safety risks, endanger the public environment and public health, and are not effective in smoking cessation."
According to the report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic 2019 released by the World Health Organization (WHO) last year, the ranking of products potentially exposed to harmful and potentially harmful chemicals is: cigarettes & GT; Heating non-burning tobacco products & GT; Nicotine e-cigarettes.
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Let's take a look at the main liquid components of e-cigarettes: nicotine, propylene glycol, glycerin. Glycerin and propylene glycol are approved for use in food, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.
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Then there's nicotine. Back in 1976, Professor M Russell published an article entitled "People Smoke nicotine and Die from tar". That said, nicotine was known to be the least harmful as far back as 1976. People don't die or get sick from nicotine -- it's not a carcinogen.
So what are the carcinogens in traditional cigarettes?
According to Farslinos, nitrosamines, the main carcinogen in tobacco cigarettes, are found in very little e-cigarettes: 5,191 mg of total nitrosamines per marlboro, compared with just 13mg per milliliter of e-cigarettes.
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According to Public Health England, e-cigarettes are at least 95% less harmful than smoking. Chairman Ding, you feel the conscience to say a word, the harm to public health, cigarettes or e-cigarettes which is higher?
So, aren't e-cigarettes effective in stopping smoking?
A study by University College London in the UK was published in the prestigious academic journal ADDICTION. E-cigarettes have proved effective in helping Smokers in the UK kick the habit, with more than 50,000 smokers using them a year, according to research.
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A study by Hayek et al, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, found e-cigarettes were twice as effective as nicotine replacement therapy.
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In addition, daily e-cigarette users in Greece were 11 times more likely to quit smoking, according to a study by Farsalinos, MD, et al. In the European Union, people who use e-cigarettes every day are five times more likely to quit.
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This is not high, then I can only understand that the anti-cancer ambassador Ding chairman not only cares about human health, but also has perfectionism and obsessive-compulsive disorder, let me two dogs crying. Then I suggest that you, Chairman Ding, write a letter of blood to completely ban traditional tobacco and e-cigarettes, and severely punish misdemeanors, and kill smokers on the spot to ensure that the smoking cessation rate is 100%.
Let's look at the last charge: "Vaping does not require lighting a fire and circumvents smoking bans in public places. "The presence of formaldehyde and acrolein in the aerosol of e-cigarettes may cause DNA damage and mutagenicity in humans, so the use of e-cigarettes does not eliminate the damage to public health caused by 'second-hand smoke' in public places."
One sentence at a time. First, how does vaping get around smoking bans in public places? Are e-cigarettes without fire and fog? This is an insult to the eyesight of the inspectors.
Second, formaldehyde and acrolein may cause human DNA damage and mutagenesis, no problem.But can formaldehyde from e-cigarettes really reach dangerous levels? Research suggests the answer is no.
Professor Peter Hayek, chairman of the Barts Tobacco-dependence Research Unit and chairman of the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, said: "Users who use e-cigarettes under normal conditions do not reach dangerous levels of formaldehyde. "What this study wanted to show is that e-cigarettes are at least 95 percent safer than cigarettes," he added.
Leaving the dose and talking about toxicity, not hooliganism is what?
02 E-cigarette industry calls for regulation
After all this analysis, should e-cigarettes be discussed? Should be. But it's definitely not just his head. What should be called for is that control policies should be introduced as soon as possible.
After all, the current lack of regulation on e-cigarettes has led to a mix of monsters in the market, including those who want to make a quick buck by using e-cigarettes to lure teenagers with fancy packaging, and those who add harmful substances illegally.
But regular e-cigarettes can't do that! On the contrary, the big brands of e-cigarettes are tied with their own hands: some have introduced measures to protect teenagers, set up facial recognition devices, and prohibit e-cigarettes from being sold to minors, while some have introduced corporate regulations to strictly limit the amount of harmful substances such as formaldehyde in e-cigarettes......
Why don't those monsters fill their e-cigarettes and let them take the blame for everything that goes wrong? If drug dealer Liu Ermazi adds marijuana to his e-cigarette one day, does that make e-cigarette use a drug?
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So, how can the e-cigarette industry grow healthily?
Introduce control over bai! The WORLD Health Organization says current regulations on tobacco products also apply to e-cigarettes. Formaldehyde in some e-cigarettes? Introduce clear regulations to limit formaldehyde content ah! Some e-cigarette packages are fancy to lure teenagers? Strict standards should be put in place to ban the sale of e-cigarettes to teenagers. Anyone caught selling e-cigarettes to teenagers will be punished to death!
After all, the REASON why the UK and other EU countries have done so well in e-cigarette control is that they have stricter regulations on e-cigarettes. Since May 20, 2017, the UK has required that the volume of each e-cigarette tube should not exceed 2 ml. The maximum capacity of the added smoky oil shall not exceed 10 ml; Nicotine-containing products and their packaging must prevent children from unpacking them and cannot be restored to their original state; Certain ingredients, including coloring, caffeine, and taurine, are banned from vaping.
In the early years, even Juul, an American e-cigarette giant, had to dilute the nicotine liquid in its products to meet the UK e-cigarette industry standards in order to enter the UK market.
Shenzhen is home to millions of e-cigarette practitioners.
Shenzhen alone has nearly 1,000 e-cigarette and component manufacturers, accounting for 90 percent of the world's output, according to a report on the Regulatory Status of the e-cigarette Industry (2019), a research report on Public Health and Technology Regulation, released by a tsinghua University research team on August 29.
The top five brands in APV atomization market share in the US e-cigarette market are all from Shenzhen Baoan. McWell, with an annual revenue of more than 1.5 billion yuan, is the leader among shenzhen's e-cigarette contract factories. It has three factories in Baoan, the largest of which covers an area of no more than 2 hectares, equivalent to 2.7 standard football fields.
Words are said to this on, if all not line of words, suggest ding chairman one person in blood, comprehensive smoking ban. The punishment for misdemeanors is kill on sight. In addition, chairman Ding needs to stand on a global level and liberate The United States: march in blood in the United States, cancel PTMA in the United States and TPD in Europe. We can't have all the good stuff.
Finally, electronic cigarettes in the industry have also said that the brothers oneself also think, do electronic cigarette have no decent lung cancer drug, the shell of a pharmaceutical is interested in the job, if really to prohibit the electronic cigarettes, the number of lung cancer is expected to increase, by that time, hope butyl chairman read aloud, for jobs, Millions of people who make e-cigarettes go to work for a pharmaceutical company.
After all, it is everyone's responsibility to benefit the people.