Inhalation toxicologist Ilona Jaspers is on a mission to inform us about how smoking and vaping aren’t the same at all. Because vapes “expose consumers to chemicals in a fundamentally different way,” an understanding of the differences between the two could help address the vaping crisis we’...
“While evidence suggests that vaping is currently increasing smoking cessation,” they added, “the impact could be much larger if the public health community paid serious attention to vaping’s potential to help adult smokers, smokers received accurate information about the relative risks of vaping ...
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Smoking is a global public health concern, with a significant negative impact on human health and healthcare spending. Vaping, or the use of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes), has emerged as a popular alternative to traditional nicotine replacement therapies (NRTs) for smoking cessation. While ...
Our findings suggested that vaping has the potential to help pregnant individuals quit smoking. Given the substantial perinatal risks associated with tobacco use, ACOG urges clinicians to regularly advise and support pregnant individuals to stop smoking at prenatal and postpartum follow-up visits. It ...
In this issue of CHEST, Rezk-Hanna et al12 investigate the acute effects of e-hookah vaping in comparison with traditional hookah smoking, focusing on inflammation, oxidation, and arterial stiffness. This randomized crossover study included 17 healthy young chronic hookah smokers who averaged two ...
The negative effects of smoking tobacco and e-cigarette vaping are primarily evaluated in terms of causes of development of cardiovascular diseases, lung cancer, respiratory chronic inflammatory diseases, or disorders of the gastrointestinal microbiota [1–3]. However, other tissues also succumb to toxi...
Smoking Vaping Social smoking Smoking identity Cigarette dependence 1. Introduction Social smoking identity is defined as a self-identity in which the person describes themselves as someone who smokes predominantly or exclusively in the presence of others who are smoking (ADDICTO:0001168 (AddictO, 2020...
This was termed ‘e-cigarette or vaping product use-associated lung injury’ (EVALI) and although it was eventually traced to the addition of vitamin E acetate to local illicit marijuana products42,43, it was widely reported internationally, including in the United Kingdom, as being related to...
SO WHAT ABOUT VAPING? Vaping—heating a solution into a vapor and inhaling it—has been pitched as a safer alternative to smoking. Experts have said vaping pot is probably less harmful to the lungs than smoking it, though there's little research on the health effects over time, and they ...