Quit Smoking:E-cigarettes health studies in France suggest that E-cigarettes contain carcinogens. A Study of young Korean smokers found that E-Cigarette smokers aren't quitting regular cigarettes,

E-cigarettes vaporize liquid nicotine. E-cigarettes health benefits are used in marketing because they don't contain tobacco. The National Consumer Institute in France's e-cigarettes health studies came to similar conclusions as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.  E-cigarettes are hyped as an aid to help people to quit smoking regular cigarettes. But studies from UC San Francisco and Korean researchers suggests that young people who are using e-cigarettes to quit smoking might be smoking more, not less. 

Using a new testing technique, E-cigarettes health studies found a "significant amount" of "carcinogenic molecules" in the e-cigarettes vapor in 12 different models.

There is as much formaldehyde and acrolein in e-cigarettes as regular cigarettes in 3 out of 10 cases studied in e-cigarettes health studies, whether the products had nicotine or not.
Thomas Laurenceau, and editor at the National Consumer Institute magazine said "This is not a reason to ban them, but to place them under better control."

The Wall Street Journal reported that the FDA is considering new regulations for the e-cigarettes. This would include banning e-cigarettes from on online sales. E-cigarettes have avoided restrictions that are on regular cigarettes because e-cigarettes do not actually emit tobacco smoke.

One town in California is considering a moratorium on new shops hoping to sell e-cigarettes. Jim Basham, Community Development Director at Seal Beach told My Fox LA, "The city [of Seal Beach, Calif.] wants more time to explore the health affects and any time you have a smoke related business you want to take careful consideration and figure out how it impacts the community."

According to published reports, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is working on a bill to restrict e-cigarettes.

Critics of the bans say e-cigarettes are still safer than cigarettes. Boston University's School of Public Health's Michael Siegel told the New York Times "Many anti-smoking groups oppose these products because they are blinded by ideology. They find it difficult, if not impossible, to endorse a behavior that looks like smoking, even though it is literally saving people's lives....What's not to like?"

According to the Verge, recent e-cigarettes health studies from Wells Fargo said e-cigarettes are popular because people believe that e-cigarettes are healthier than traditional smoking.

The report said "E-cigarettes are more than just a fad. E-Cigarettes' appeal stems from a variety of perceived advantages over traditional cigarettes, most commonly the perceptions that e-cigarettes are healthier, cheaper, and can be used almost anywhere."

"It is true that more research is needed on the health effects of e-cigarettes," Mitch Zeller, director of the FDA's Center for Tobacco Products, told the WSJ. "However, we do not need more research on whether e-cigarettes should or should not be included in proposed FDA regulations."

The e-cigarette market recorded over $1 billion in sales in 2012. E-cigarette profit could reach $10 billion within five years. E-cigarette sales have to potential to surpass traditional cigarette sales in the next few decades.

E-cigarettes look like cigarettes. They are run on batteries and deliver an aerosol of nicotine and othe chemicals. The ads say E-Cigarettes offer safer alternatives to people trying to quit smoking like nicotine gum.  E-cigarettes are getting more popular in the United States and globally. E-Cigarettes are largely unregulated. There is no effective way to control how they are marketed to minors.

Stanton A. Glantz, Ph.D., of UCSF professor of medicine and director of the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at UCSF, who is the senior author of the study said "We are witnessing the beginning of a new phase of the nicotine epidemic and a new route to nicotine addiction for kids. Our paper raises serious concern about the effects of the Wild West marketing of e-cigarettes on youth." UCSF researchers found that four out of five Korean teen e-cigarette users are "dual" smokers.

The UCSF researchers studied the use of e-cigarettes by 75,000 young people in Korea. E-cigarettes are marketed in Korea similarly to how they are marketed in the United States. The study was published in the Journal of Adolescent Health.

The e-cigarette industry says that it is only marketed to adults, but the devices are making headway in the youth market. The U.S. CDC found that most adolescent e-cigarette users also smoke regular cigarettes. The CDC found that the percentage of middle and high school students who use e-cigarettes more than doubled from 2011 to 2012. The CDC says about 1.78 million U.S. students have used e-cigarettes as of 2012.

Researchers believe young e-cigarette smokers "are more likely to have tried quitting smoking, which suggests that, consistent with cigarette marketing messages, some youth may be using e-cigarettes as a smoking cessation aid...Use of e-cigarettes is associated with heavier use of conventional cigarettes, which raises the likelihood that actual use of e-cigarettes may increase harm by creating a new pathway for youth to become addicted to nicotine and by reducing the odds that an adolescent will stop smoking conventional cigarettes."

The researchers used data from the annual Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-based Survey conducted by the Korea Centers for Disease Control in 2011.

Sungkyu Lee, PhD, lead author of the study, said e-cigarette use is on the rise in Korea. In 2008, when e-cigarettes were unviled, less than one percent of youths tried it. By 2011 that number grew to nine percent in 2011.