Health Concerns About Vaping Are Growing—Here’s Why By Julia FelsenthalApril 2, 2018 Photographed by Tim Walker, Vogue, December 2016 On a recent visit to Vape Town, a purveyor of e-cigarettes in Manhattan’s West Village, I find a culture in flux. The store is eq...
Frequent cigarette smoking can negatively impact the health of loved ones as well, due to the severe effects of secondhand smoke. Because of these and other dangers, many smokers have turned to e-cigarettes to lessen the negative impact on their health and in many cases, to help quit smoking...
“I view it as an urgent matter for people to get off cigarettes completely. Then, as a secondary goal, they can eventually give up vaping,” says Kozlowski. The trouble is, when it comes to the health of adolescents, authorities aren’t necessarily weighing the difference between...
Although electronic cigarettes and other vaping devices are an emerging exposure, accumulating evidence suggests that secondhand exposure to their emissions is not benign. Secondhand exposures may be more problematic in developing fetuses and growing children, with potentially life-long effects. Still, ...
African American and Latinx smokers experience significant tobacco-related health disparities. The potential of NSPS e-cigarettes to reduce smoking-related harm among these groups is unknown. Objective To compare the harm reduction potential of NSPS e-cigarette vs combustible cigarettes. Design, Setting,...
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2015;12:3915–25. Article CAS PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Cervellati F, Muresan XM, Sticozzi C, Gambari R, Montagner G, Forman HJ, Torricelli C, Maioli E, Valacchi G. Comparative effects between electronic and cigarette smoke in human ...
However, our study currently precludes any cause-effect speculation, ascribing responsibility for the effects detected to the vapour as a whole rather than the single components. Our results should be construed as stemming from a preliminary study which was not conceived to replicate human vaping ...
One prior study showed that infants of adolescents (aged 12-18 years) who smoked during pregnancy had a greater reduction in birth weight than infants of adults who smoked during pregnancy (−202 g vs −158 g per pack per day).22 Despite existing findings on the adverse health effects ...
Ilona Jaspers initially approached the outbreak of vaping-related illnesses with a clinical curiosity. As an inhalation toxicologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Jaspers has for nearly 20 years studied the health effects of many substances that can be inhaled. Seven of those...
researchers are collaborating on a first-of-its-kind study to learn more about the potential health effects of e-cigarettes. Teaming with the University of Rochester Medical Center, researchers are exploring whethervapingcauses subtle changes in proteins at themolecular levelthat could contribute to di...