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E-cigarettes, battery-op-erated devices that issue a dose of nicotine via water vapour rather than smoke, are becoming increasingly popular.

The electronic devices con-tain a solution of nicotine, wa-ter, either propylene glycol or glycerine, and sometimes fla-vourings. This liquid is heat-ed so it forms vapour which is then inhaled to deliver the nicotine straight to the lungs, offering a ‘hit’ that is similar to

The Canarian Tropical Diseases University Institute (IUET) has been saved from the possibility of having to stop much of its vital inves-tigation work thanks to the intervention of the Senegal

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its kind in Spain, is totally free and is available to everybody – drivers and occupants – trav-elling in a car insured by Línea Directa, whether they are to blame for the accident or not, as well as injured third par-ties. To operate this service, Línea Directa has created an extensive assistance network by means of collaboration agreements with prestigious medical specialists, hospitals, rehabilitation clinics, diagnosis centres and patient transporta-tion service. Línea Directa also offers its customer services en-tirely in English and German, acting as intermediaries not only with repair garages, but

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electronic cigarettes

Lesser of two evilssmoking a cigarette, but with-out some of the detrimental effects.

They are becoming so wide-ly used that here in the Canary Islands shops selling a stun-ning array of different makes and styles are springing up at a considerable rate.

Long-term studies on their use have yet to be undertak-en, but health officials have certainly accepted them as the lesser of two evils. For a start, they only contain nico-

tine and not tobacco. Nicotine is a highly addictive drug, but much less dangerous than tobacco, and ordinary ciga-rettes also contain a cocktail of other harmful drugs. The heated smoke inhaled from cigarettes is also damaging to lungs, and that is avoided too. Also, though the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) found the liquid and vapour to contain traces of toxins, in-cluding nitrosamines and for-maldehyde, known to be can-cer-causing, the level of these is about one thousandth of that in cigarette smoke.

Early studies on whether they can help people give up smoking have been promising.

Their advantage is that they look and feel like cigarettes; give out a smoke-like vapour that feels like smoking; satisfy cravings quickly; and also fulfill the same hand-to-mouth hab-it that smoking instills.

Research by the University of East London (UEL), published in Addiction Journal, showed that nearly 75 percent of the 1,400 people who took part in a worldwide study started us-ing e-cigarettes as a complete alternative to smoking, though only seven per cent specifically began with the idea of using them as an aid to giving up the dreaded weed. Nevertheless, 86 per cent of the vapers, as E-cigarette users are called, con-firmed they had not smoked cigarettes for several weeks or months

From 2016, Electronic ciga-rettes are to be licensed as an aid to quit smoking in the UK, which is probably not a bad thing. They will be classed as medicines, their contents regulated, and more research undertaken.

Meanwhile, though the ide-al situation is to not smoke an-ything at all, E-cigarettes may well be a very good step to take towards that end.

tropical diseases

SenegaL SaveS Canarian reSearCh Centre

government. Due to not re-ceiving its normal funding from the Office of Excellence and the Spanish Agency for Cooperation and Development (AECID), the organisation faced having to make massive

cuts in the very near future and even faced closure. However, officials from Senegal have of-fered €325,000 for next year’s budget, allowing the Canarian foundation’s work on the con-trol of tropical diseases to con-tinue. President of Senegal, Macky Sall, is honorary presi-dent of the foundation, which is one of the Canary Island’s flagship investigative units. Further grants from other African countries have not been ruled out.