Duru Çetinkaya Pelin, Pazarlı Bostan Pınar, Salepçi Banu, Görek Dilektaşlı Aslı, Elbek Osman, Uyanusta Küçük Filiz Çağla, Karadoğan Dilek, Arpaz Seren, Dülger Seyhan, Uysal Mehmet Atilla, Uzaslan Esra, Özge Cengiz, Kılınç Oğuz, Dağlı Elif, Itil Oya
Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Çukurova University, Adana, Turkey.
Department of Nursing, İstanbul Bilgi University Faculty of Health Sciences, İstanbul, Turkey.
Turk Thorac J. 2022 Jul;23(4):296-301. doi: 10.5152/TurkThoracJ.2022.22018.
Tobacco addiction, which causes the death of more than 8.5 million people in the world every year, is a preventable global public health problem. There are 1.1 billion adult smokers worldwide and 60% of them desire or intend to quit but unfortunately, the tobacco industry continues to profit at the expense of people's lives by marketing electronic cigarettes and heated tobacco products as a smoking cessation method and they continue to poison young people with new threat tobacco products, promising a "smoke-free future" Turkish Thoracic Society is actively involved in the implementation of the National Tobacco Control Program to protect public health and has warned and raised awareness of new threats to the youth, such as electronic cigarettes and heated tobacco products. The purpose of this report is to provide information about electronic cigarettes and heated tobacco products and to present TTJ's position on the subject.
烟草成瘾是一个可预防的全球公共卫生问题，每年导致全球超过850万人死亡。全球有11亿成年吸烟者，其中60%希望或打算戒烟，但不幸的是，烟草行业继续以牺牲人们的生命为代价获利，将电子烟和加热烟草制品作为戒烟方法进行营销，并且继续用新的威胁性烟草制品毒害年轻人，承诺一个“无烟未来”。土耳其胸科协会积极参与国家烟草控制计划的实施以保护公众健康，并就电子烟和加热烟草制品等对年轻人的新威胁发出警告并提高了认识。本报告的目的是提供有关电子烟和加热烟草制品的信息，并阐述土耳其胸科协会在该问题上的立场。
