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Health officials in Britain are now endorsing e-cigarettes as a way to quit smoking for the first time – saying they are 95-percent safer than tobacco equivalents.

Rosanna O’Connor, director of alcohol, drugs and tobacco at Public Health England, said: ‘The danger comes because many smokers who have not tried e-cigarettes say they are afraid they are too risky. they keep smoking because they wrongly believe the alternative is...

Practically all of the adults in Britain who are now using e-cigarettes are smokers who are using the devices to try to quit smoking, and only 2 percent of youths were regular users.

Chief executive of the British Dental Health Foundation, Dr Nigel Carter, said: “We are very happy that smoking rates in the UK are in a steady decline but more attention is needed to bring a stop to this deadly habit”.

Electronic cigarettes are 95 percent less harmful than smoking traditional cigarettes and have the potential to help smokers quit smoking, according to a report published on Wednesday by Britain’s Department of Health.

Teenagers who use e-cigarettes are more likely than others to later smoke cigarettes and use other tobacco products, The Associated Press reports. However we still have concerns about the impact on the population of e-cigarettes and support the need for better regulation and...

The researchers found that students who had ever used e-cigarettes (222 students at the start of the study) were more likely to report initiation of combustible tobacco use over the next year. The American Vaping Association, an e-cigarette industry group, asserts that the...

Bhasin, who lead BWH’s research programme in Men’s Health: Aging and Metabolism, and his team recruited 300 males aged above 60 with low testosterone levels ranging between 100 and 400 ng/dL.

While men with low testosterone levels reported improved sex drive, mood and energy levels after they received TRT, the benefits in lowering risks of Michigan and death is only applicable for participants who have normal testosterone levels.

Older men whose low testosterone is restored to normal through gels, patches, or injections have a lower risk of heart attack, stroke, or death from any cause, compared to men who are not treated, scientists, including one of Indian-origin, have found.

The researchers found that the rates of subclinical atherosclerosis progression, as measured by changes in common carotid artery intima-media thickness or coronary artery calcium, did not differ significantly between men assigned to the testosterone or placebo groups.

Over the study’s three-year span, men taking testosterone reported no greater sense of well-being, nor better erectile or ejaculatory function, sexual desire or partner intimacy, than did those getting a placebo.

The first of these was men who the treatment restored to normal testosterone levels, those who underwent treatment but did not manage to return to such levels, and men who had no treatment at all. The study was published online August 6, 2015, in the European Heart Journal.