Ban on E-Liquid Flavors Could Push Youths to Tobacco Smoking, Study Finds
A new study, believed to be the first to assess how complete flavor bans affect youth smoking habits, has found that banning flavored vapes in San Francisco doubled students’ odds of smoking tobacco cigarettes. In 2018, when San Francisco voters overwhelmingly voted in support of a measure banning the sale of flavored tobacco products, including e-liquid flavors, many public health experts and...
Read More...Study Shows How EVALI Pushed E-cigarette Users Back to Smoking
A new study that analyzed the effects of a Massachusetts bill inspired by the EVALI epidemic of 2019 found that the state's hard stance on vaping pushed people back to smoking. Looking at the current state of vaping in the US, I think it's fair to say that the 2019
Read More...UK Study Finds Daily E-Cigarette Use Is an Effective Quit-Smoking Aid
King's College London recently published a study funded by Cancer Research UK, which highlights the "clear benefits" of daily e-cigarette use for smoking cessation. Published on March 10 (No Smoking Day), in the journal Addiction, this vaping study aimed to measure the
Read More...E-Cigarettes Help Smokers Quit, Yearly Public Health England Report Shows
Researchers at King’s College London recently completed their seventh annual report on electronic cigarette use in the UK, and concluded that vaping can help cigarette smokers quit the habit. The report, commissioned by Public Health England (PHE),...
Read More...Sweet E-Liquid Can Flavors Help Smokers Quit, New Study Finds
Fruit, dessert and other sweet e-liquid flavors can help tobacco cigarette smokers quit. At least that is the conclusion of a scientific study that looked at the relationship between various flavors and smoking cessation. Titled "How does the use of flavored nicotine vaping products relate to...
Read More...New Study Suggests Sensory Experience Makes Vaping More Effective at Helping Smokers Quit
When talking about smoking cessation, most people only mention nicotine dependence, but the sensory experience associated with cigarette smoking also plays a huge part in keeping smokers hooked. A recent study shows that it's this capacity to reproduce the sensory experience that makes
Read More...Vape Pods Less Harmful Than Tobacco Cigarettes, According to New Study
Researchers from three different US universities recently published a study in which they compare the effects of nicotine-containing pod systems and tobacco cigarettes on African American and Latinx smokers. Although the rate of tobacco smoking among Black and Latinx groups is about the same, or even lower, when compared to White people, these two groups are are at increased risk for adverse...
Read More...Study Claims Vaping Is a Gateway to Smoking, Proves No Such Thing
The idea behind scientific studies is that they base their conclusion on results obtained through scientific research, but it seems nowadays study authors can claim whatever they want, even if the results of their own research show otherwise. The so-called "gateway theory", according to which
Read More...Laughable “Study” Suggests EVALI-Like Symptoms Tied to Vaping Since 2016
The so--called "EVALI epidemic", which both the CDC and the media wrongly blamed on vaping, wreaked havoc in the United States last year, but according to a small and frankly embarrassing study, its symptoms could be observed way back in 2016. If only we had paid more attention... The American Heart Association (AHA) has always gone out of its way to promote and even finance
Read More...E-Cigarette Use Not Linked to Wheezing in Teens, Longitudinal Study Finds
According to a recently-published cohort study from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, vaping doesn't appear to cause wheezing in teenagers. For this study Alayna P. Tackett, Ph.D., and her colleagues at the University of Southern California analyzed public data from the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) survey to see whether a history of e-cigarette use,...
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