So,it's official - well, very nearly...

That's the thing about new science - it has to be reviewed by folks who know what they're talking about. Well, Dr. Murray Laugersen's report into Ruyan Electronic Cigarettes has been submitted for publication in a peer reviewed journal now, and so, very soon, folks who know what they're talking about will make their comments and, hopefully, endorse his findings.

You can read the slimmed-down version and findings here in an easy to digest form.

The really salient point - I quote:

"...e-cigarette users do not inhale smoke or smoke toxicants. The modest
reductions recommended in 2008 by WHO’sTobacco Regulation committee for 9 major
toxicants in cigarette smoke, in line with Articles 9 and 10 of the FCTC (WHO Framework Convention Tobacco Control treaty), are already far exceeded by the Ruyan® e-cigarette, as it is free of all accompanying smoke toxicants.

Absolute safety does not exist for any drug, but relative to lethal tobacco smoke emissions, Ruyan e-cigarette emissions appear to be several magnitudes safer. E-cigarettes are akin to a medicinal nicotine inhalator in safety, dose, and
addiction potential.

E-cigarettes are cigarette substitutes. If they can take nicotine market share from cigarettes, and that is the big question, they will improve smoker and population health. They may also have a secondary role as medicinal nicotine inhaler quitting aids."

Just so you know "several magnitudes safer" means at least 1000 times safer - or 1/1000th the risk of real cigarettes.

This ex smoker welcomes this report, and looks forward to the peer review - I think it will confirm what many of us have suspected for a long time now - and that is that e-cigarettes are much, much safer than traditional tobacco cigarettes, not only for smokers, but especially for those around them.