{"id":14307,"date":"2023-05-05T14:46:45","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T09:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/?p=14307"},"modified":"2023-06-26T06:16:15","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T00:46:15","slug":"e-cigarettes","status":"publish","type":"current-affairs","link":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/current-affairs\/e-cigarettes","title":{"rendered":"e-cigarettes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Context:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Australian government said it wanted to crack down on the use of e-cigarettes in an effort to reduce smoking and stamp out vaping.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>About e-cigarettes:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">E-cigarettes are <\/span><b>battery-powered devices <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that heat a solution of nicotine and different flavours to create aerosol, which is then inhaled.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These devices belong to a category of vapour-based nicotine products called <\/span><b>ENDS.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An e-cigarette emits vaporise nicotine, or non-nicotine solutions.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The user inhales it looking for a sensation similar to inhaling tobacco smoke, but without the smoke.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Associated Harms:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These products have neither been assessed for safety in the national population, nor been approved under provisions of the <\/span><b>Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As per the white paper released by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) the uses of ENDS, or e-cigarettes, have \u201cdocumented adverse effects\u201d which include\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DNA damage<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">carcinogenesis (initiation of cancer formation)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">cellular, molecular and immunological toxicity<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">respiratory, cardiovascular and neurological disorders<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">impacts on foetal development and pregnancy.<\/span><b style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\"><i>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/i><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\"><i>News Source: <\/i><\/b><a style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\" href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-health\/how-australia-plans-to-stamp-out-vaping-8589146\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b><i>Indian Express<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Context:\u00a0 The Australian government said it wanted to crack down on the use of e-cigarettes in an effort to reduce smoking and stamp out vaping. About e-cigarettes:\u00a0 E-cigarettes are battery-powered devices that heat a solution of nicotine and different flavours to create aerosol, which is then inhaled.\u00a0 These devices belong to a category of vapour-based&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/current-affairs\/e-cigarettes\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">e-cigarettes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[286,285,284,287],"paper-wise":[],"subject":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/current-affairs\/14307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/current-affairs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/current-affairs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/current-affairs\/14307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14307"},{"taxonomy":"paper-wise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper-wise?post=14307"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=14307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}