The worst combination is vaping and smoking cigarettes every day, which increases your heart attack risk fivefold. There is a silver lining, though: If you only use e-cigs occasionally, then you have little to worry about as your heart attack risk does not significantly change. Another piece ...
E-cigarettes typically heat a solution that contains nicotine, the drug that makes tobacco addictive. They are generally considered less harmful than cancer-causing traditional cigarettes. But there is little long-term research on the health effects of vaping. With one in four teenagers now using e...
"We should be trying to get the balance right between not promoting something which is intrinsically safe—because cigarettes are not intrinsically safe—but at the same time recognizing they have a role to play inpublic healthand harm reduction." Does the evidence suggest that e-cigarettes are ...
No tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, are safe. Vaping is often thought of as safer than cigarette smoking, but vaping can also cause serious health problems. Most e-cigarettes contain nicotine, often at high levels, which can have negative effects on brain development in teenagers. E-ci...
Vaping can make COPD worse. But there’s not enough research to show that e-cigarettes actually cause it. It takes years for COPD to show up, and e-cigarettes haven’t been around that long. One short-term study found that people who vaped got COPD more often than people who didn’t...
Electronic cigarettes (ECs) are aggressively being promoted as smoking cessation aids however, ECs have not been approved as a smoking cessation aids for good reasons.doi:10.1016/j.cjca.2014.07.713Fitch, D.Avery, L.Estrella-Holder, E.Kvern, M....
1:Vaping Is Less Harmful Than Smoking, but It's Still Not Safe. E-cigarettes heat nicotine (extracted from tobacco), flavorings and other chemicals to create an aerosol that you inhale. Regular tobacco cigarettes contain 7,000 chemicals, many of which are toxic. ...
Smoking e-cigarettes, or vaping, is increasingly popular among middle and high school students, new data shows.
McAfee said that manufacturers contend that e-cigarettes are safe because they release harmless water vapor. However, thatvapor contains nicotine, which can be inhaled by kids who are near people using these devices. Children can also be exposed to nicotine from surfaces where it has accumulated ...
National Cancer Institute.What we know about electronic cigarettes. Ashour AM.Use of vaping as a smoking cessation aid: a review of clinical trials.J Multidiscip Healthc. 2023;16:2137-2144. doi:10.2147/JMDH.S419945 ByMaggie O'Neill