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01/28/2013
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RIO - Leonardo di Caprio smokes. Actors Robert Pattinson and Dennis Quaid also. In Brazil, despite the marketing banned by ANVISA since 2009, electronic cigarettes reappeared. For use here can not sell. But on the internet offering the product is high, varied and facilitated. And thus, the number of users increases, for reasons ranging from curiosity to attempt to quit smoking, even if specialists in tobacco dependence reject this possibility. In the U.S. alone, there are now 400 different brands of electronic cigarettes.
- I tried to try to quit smoking, it tastes good and gives a certain pleasure. But you have to do a lot of strength to inhale, the battery drains fast, complicated and thought back to the cigarette - tells the seller Nubia Heckert, smoker for over 20 years who have tried to use the nicotine patch but had tachycardia.
Sometimes when you run out cigarette, she reuses the Chinese device, purchased on the internet six months ago.
The prohibition of ANVISA, based on health legislation that requires proof of safety and efficacy of the product (whether in damage reduction, either in smoking cessation), does not serve to restrain the sale.
- We have other situations like this, as the sale of food supplements on the internet in which we work together with the Federal Police, but there's not much we can do - says the director of monitoring and controlling health agency, Agenor Álvares.
From the medical point of view there is no recommendation. According to the psychiatrist, pulmonologist and Alessandra A. Costa, the sector of licit department of psychiatry Uerj, the few studies that exist on the subject indicate mucosal irritation caused by lung electronic cigarette. The FDA, the U.S. agency that regulates food and drugs, found in the cartridges, besides nicotine, the substance diethylene glycol and nitrosamines, and cancer-causing chemical dependency.
- The first thing the doctor who treats dependent cigarette does is break the tripod dependency: chemical, psychological and habit - explains. - The e-cigarette does not help with this because it induces the same gestural behavior. Also has nicotine, even if the level is reduced, the cartridges are not standardized - says the doctor.
For the cardiologist Marcelo Montera, coordinator of the Center for Heart Failure hospital PróCardíaco, only the prohibition of ANVISA and contraindications of therapeutic use recommended by the FDA and the World Health Organization about the product would be sufficient to end the matter.
- Would you take a Coke that was not tested? Well that's what people do with the electronic cigarette. There are indicators that the product boosts the addiction and there is no scientific literature on the reduction of cases of cancer or dependence - warns. Another problem, he said, is the lack of proof of safety.
- Not because it has no tar and other elements that the electronic cigarette is safer if the normal cigarette has 60 elements proven carcinogens, this has five potentially carcinogenic. People mistakenly feel that because they can consume the same substances present in foods. One thing is for eating, one is inhaling - says.
Unlike most cases the producer Julius Cunha managed to reduce the level of nicotine using the electronic cigarette, began a year ago with the load of 18mg per ml and is now in the 12mg per ml.
- My American is guaranteed by the FDA and to me is a fabulous invention. My cardiologist felt great when I saw this swap two packs per cartridge. The advantage is that the electronic cigarette can give you a shot and put in his pocket, the other lights and you have to smoke until the end - he says, which commemorates the return of what he calls analog cigarette, and says he wants to reduce the load 6mg per ml for three months
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Source: The Globe - Online
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