International Congress Amsterdam 2015


E-cigarettes: a wolf in sheep's clothing or a sheep in wolf's clothing?

Hot topics
Chairs: Carlos Andres Jimenez Ruiz (Madrid, Spain), Bo Lundback (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Aims: To update physicians, investigators, and health allied professionals about the hot topic of e-cigarettes, describe the safety of e-cigarettes and the need for caution when recommending e-cigarette use, present the updated positions of WHO, AHA, FIRS, and ERS in terms of e-cigarette recommendations.
Target audience: Clinicians, nurses, all health professionals (both in pulmonary and non pulmonary discipline) and addiction specialist who would like to be updated with scientific evidences concerning e-cigarettes and the current ERS, FIRS, AHA and WHO positions on e-cigarettes.
e-cigarette constituents and particle emission
Efthimios Zervas (Patra, Greece)
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WebcastSlide presentationMultimedia files
The impact of e-cigarettes on the lungs
Robert Foronjy (Scarsdale, United States of America)
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WebcastSlide presentationMultimedia files
e-cigarettes for smoking cessation
Paraskevi Katsaounou (Athens, Greece)
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WebcastSlide presentationMultimedia files