Nurses, nursing homes and private clinics and prohibit the use of the electronic cigarette

The legal absence and indeterminacy of the Department of Health on the electronic cigarette has caused several health groups are positioned against the use of this device until no reports to determine which is harmless to health.

The clearest case starring nurses - pose the largest health sector with 25,000 workers , who were ahead of the Valencian Administration recommending that the electronic device is prohibited.

"While we can not say otherwise nurses believe it is more important to prevent than cure and recommend to patients that the electronic cigarette is censure in hospitals , health centers and schools and colleges ," according to Council President nursing Valencia, CECOVA , José Antonio Ávila .

AERTE not allow e- cigarette until legislation regulating it and have a scientific backing
Reason, to the president of the nurses ' is that in places where there may be more at risk , such as health centers, avoid this practice and emphasizes that "all the studies that have appeared to date shed that nothing is safe to the health of people . "

The truth is that international agencies have issued opinions only against. Neither the World Health Organization (WHO ) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA acronym ) consider the e- cigarette as a therapy. On the contrary , the FDA and published in 2009 a study evidencing containing carcinogenic ingredients and other chemicals harmful to health .

An argument that the collective nursing adopted to suggest the cessation of this practice until a regional legal framework such as the one initiated in Catalonia and Andalusia.

prevention

Ávila remember, that the role of the sector is based on disease prevention and the promotion of healthy habits " hence while health does not believe legislation for regulation can only oppose its use as a preventive measure and to scientific data to warn of its danger. "

Another criticism of Avila to this electronic device is in the habit of smoking is maintained and " in the case of schools is a reference for children or young people who are educated with the image of people suffering a vice and then they can lead to smoking. "

Private clinics receive patient complaints other than ' vapean ' inside
From the Business Association of Homes and Services for Dependents of Valencia ( AERTE ) has also become a common front against the electronic cigarette. Its general director , José María Look, says that in their residences Recommend ' which is not used until a law regulating it and get a scientific support ' and therefore encourages the Department of Health to issue " legislation as soon possible. "

This same approach the hold clinics and private hospitals Valencia have decided to prevent people from using the e- cigarette on their premises to avoid problems with other users who complain of vapors generated by these devices.

" We took the decision to ban it because some patients who come to be tested were angry that others are vapeando his side," according to the manager of the Valencian clinical imaging DiagnoSalud , Alberto Lozano , who explains that it is a reasonable situation because if other products ' as nicotine patches are regulated "in pharmacy, " electronic cigarettes that deliver nicotine would also have to be pregnant . "

Lozano prohibition based on its internal rules and the recommendations of the Spanish Society of Pneumology and Thoracic Surgery ( separ ) where it is stated that " can cause changes in the lungs in the short term very similar to those produced by smoking cigarettes normal " . Therefore, in the same way that " I do not allow patients to access the mobile clinic to not interfere with diagnostic machines also ask that you refrain from using artificial cigarette ."