Posted on 19th Oct 2009 @ 6:51 PM

In an amazing document released by ASH UK, the anti-smoking group makes some surprising statements concerning the e-cigarette.

With the U.S. version of ash holding a hard contempt for the e cigarette on the market, it's original founders in the UK have gone in a 180 degree direction from the U.S. based ASH that mimicked ASH U.K. in working to save over 400,000 smokers a year from sure and miserable death.

The U.K. ASH organization has now released a document that states that one of the few downsides of the e cigarette is that the levels of nicotine as "low", and may not give users the amount of nicotine needed to keep them using the e cigarette over the real thing. They further state their support for other alternatives to tobacco.

 "ASH supports a harm reduction approach to tobacco, that is, we recognize that while efforts to help people stop smoking should remain a priority, many people either do not wish to stop smoking or find it very hard to do so. For this group, we believe that products should be made available that deliver nicotine in a safe way, without the harmful components found in tobacco. Most of the diseases associated with smoking are caused by inhaling smoke which contains thousands of toxic chemicals. By contrast, nicotine is relatively safe. Therefore, e cigarettes, which deliver nicotine without the harmful toxins found in tobacco smoke, are likely to be a safer alternative to smoking. In addition, e-cigarettes reduce secondhand smoke exposure since they do not produce smoke."

With recent studies performed  by doctors showing that 45% of e cigarette users quit smoking tobacco within 8 weeks of starting with the product, along with several other studies by reputable companies around the globe stating that e cigarettes are between 100 to 1000 times safer and/or better for the user, combined with the destroyed credibility of ASH in the U.S. due to the discovery of millions of dollars in financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry, Is it any wonder that the people of the United States are expecting the e cigarette to be around a long time?