{"id":5135,"date":"2014-09-09T19:18:08","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T23:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/?p=5135"},"modified":"2014-09-09T16:36:09","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T20:36:09","slug":"e-cigarettes-much-safer-than-cigarettes-says-u-k-tobacco-studies-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/e-cigarettes-much-safer-than-cigarettes-says-u-k-tobacco-studies-director\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;E-Cigarettes Much Safer Than Cigarettes,&#8221; says U.K. Tobacco Studies Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;E-cigarettes are new and we certainly don&#8217;t yet have all the answers as to their long-term health impact, but what we do know is that they are much safer than cigarettes, which kill over 6 million people a year worldwide,&#8221; according to Ann McNeill, deputy director of the U.K. Centre for Tobacco &amp; Alcohol Studies.<\/p>\n<p>This quote appears in a <a title=\"WHO's Call for E-Cigarette Ban Criticized\" href=\"http:\/\/www.webmd.com\/smoking-cessation\/news\/20140905\/who-call-e-cigarette-ban-criticized\" target=\"_blank\">WebMD article by Peter Russell<\/a> which discusses the criticism of the World Health Organization (WHO) report on electronic cigarettes. \u00a0The result of that report is a call for a ban on electronic cigarettes in public places and workplaces. \u00a0McNeill describes the report as surprisingly negative and &#8220;found it misleading and not an accurate reflection of available evidence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While electronic cigarettes obviously do not fit in with the WHO&#8217;s political agenda, they apparently do fit in quite nicely with those groups that are actually concerned about saving smokers&#8217; lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;E-cigarettes are new and we certainly don&#8217;t yet have all the answers as to their long-term health impact, but what we do know is that they are much safer than cigarettes, which kill over 6 million people a year worldwide,&#8221; according to Ann McNeill, deputy director of the U.K. Centre for Tobacco &amp; Alcohol Studies. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,32,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5135"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5135"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5140,"href":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5135\/revisions\/5140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}