{"id":7704,"date":"2020-01-23T12:19:37","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T09:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=7704"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:49","slug":"no-doubt-e-cigarettes-harmful-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/01\/23\/no-doubt-e-cigarettes-harmful-who\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;No Doubt&#8217; E-Cigarettes Harmful: WHO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Daily\nNation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Electronic\ncigarettes are harmful both to users and bystanders exposed to the fumes, the\nWorld Health Organization says in a report warning they can damage growing\nfoetuses and impact teenagers&#8217; brains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So-called\nelectronic nicotine delivery systems, or ENDS, have been pushed by producers as\nwell as some governments as a safer alternative to smoking, and as a path to\nkicking the habit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But in a\nstrongly-worded series of questions and answers about such e-cigarettes, the UN\nhealth agency said there was not enough evidence to say they help smokers quit,\nbut that there was clear evidence they are dangerous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;There\nis no doubt that they are harmful to health and are not safe,&#8221; WHO said in\none answer, stressing though that &#8220;it is too early to provide a clear answer\non the long-term impact of using them or being exposed to them.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nbattery-powered devices that enable users to inhale addictive nicotine liquids\nand exhale vapour &#8220;are particularly risky when used by adolescents,&#8221;\nWHO said, strengthening initial warnings it made in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Nicotine\nis highly addictive and young people\u2019s brains develop up to their\nmid-twenties,&#8221; it said in a document published Tuesday, stressing that\n&#8220;exposure to nicotine can have long-lasting, damaging effects.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/news\/world\/-No-doubt--e-cigarettes-harmful--WHO\/1068-5428184-p7ksv4\/index.html\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daily Nation Electronic cigarettes are harmful both to users and bystanders exposed to the fumes, the World Health Organization says in a report warning they can damage growing foetuses&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}