This bit of technology has absolutely exploded into our lives ten years ago
they barely existed now they're everywhere science is scrambling to keep
up and the experts are bitterly divided are we on the brink of a health
revolution or gambling our way into a catastrophe now I'm about to do
something that many years ago I swore I would never do it's dangerous it's
addictive it's disgusting and there's a good chance that I'm going to be sick so
I've got a bucket down there
ah God people do this for pleasure I have never ever smoked before not even
a drag is no I think what happens in the movies
I don't feel remotely noisiest I just feel quite busy No so I get it I think I
finally get why people smoke now we've got the electronic or a cigarette it's
being marketed as a much less harmful way of getting your nicotine head but is
it the greatest public health measure ever invented as some people claim or
simply another way of keeping us addicted to nicotine with dangerous
unforeseen consequences to discover what they do to a healthy nonsmoker I'm going
to test them on myself so I've a psychologist an addiction expert dr.
Lynn Dawkins to create a vaping schedule for me to follow if you want to reflect
what a regular vapor would do you're looking at fairly continuous puffing
throughout the day
I'm having a very different experience as a nonsmoker who's taken up vaping for
a month to see how it affects me I'm struggling to stick to my schedule I'm
not experiencing cravings but I am experiencing inconvenience vaping
several times an hour is tricky when you work on the seventh floor of a building
that doesn't allow it there have been recent reports claiming that some of the
chemicals used to give eliquid their flavors or potentially toxic so should
vapors be worried many flavorings are in the cosmetics and in their food and they
were tested and we know that they are safe with when we eat them when we apply
them on a skin however now we need to make sure they are also safe when we
inhale them match a then compares the number of cells that survived being
exposed to the two different flavors menthol and pina colada surprisingly
enough in this experiment the fresh menthol flavoring killed many more cells
than the sweet pina colada we need to get this data as soon as
possible to inform users and regulators about about different flavorings and
they affect on our lungs but how does that compare to tobacco smoke oh this is
really really toxic only six percent of the cells survive exposure to tobacco
smoke there was a huge difference between electronic cigarettes and
tobacco singer
the evidence we do have at the moment suggests that passive vaping is nothing
like as bad for you as passive smoking I've been puffing away conscientiously
for four weeks so what has it been doing to me to find out I'm catching up with
dr. Lynn Dawkins Lynn is putting me through a variety of cognitive tests
your reaction time today after using your e-cigarette was fairly consistently
slower than when we tested her face line I've improved in a couple of tests but
in others I've got worse my results aren't consistent with what lynn has
found in smokers a few weeks of inhaling nicotine hasn't made me any smarter or
quicker there is some emerging evidence that in certain conditions such as
Alzheimer's disease Parkinson's disease that nicotine may have a cognitive
enhancing effect research in animals suggests that
nicotine is more addictive when it's delivered in combination with other
chemicals found in regular cigarettes
so it may be vaping is simply less addictive than smoking worldwide there
are currently around a billion smokers and about half of them will be killed by
their habit if Issa Gretz can win a significant share of the trillion-dollar
tobacco market this could transform the world's health