Study Finds E-Cigarettes Cause Short-Term Airway Inflammation
Researchers at the Hellenic Cancer Society, Athens, Greece, recently published a study on the immediate effects of vaping and found that it causes "acute pulmonary function impairment" for less than 30 minutes after use. The full study will be presented at the 2016 CHEST World Congress (April 15-17) in Shanghai, but the media somehow picked it up and covered it extensively as soon as
Read More...Media Claims E-Cigs Don’t Help You Quit Because People Aren’t Googling the Right Terms
A new study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine found that although the number of Google searches for vaping related terms has grown dramatically in the last few years, they are focused more on shopping than health. This was apparently more than enough for the media to conclude that e-cigarettes don't help smokers quit. In order to better understand the patterns of e-cigarette use, researchers from the University of North Carolina Lineberger...
Read More...Switching to E-Cigs Leads to Long-Term Health Improvements in Smokers Suffering from Asthma, Small Study FInds
While the media is busy covering every single incident involving exploding e-cigarettes, in an attempt to make using them seem even more dangerous than smoking, respectable scientists are hard at work conducting research that shows vaping can have very positive effects on smokers' health. One such researcher is Dr. Ricardo Polosa, an internationally recognized expert on tobacco harm reduction and professor at the University of Catania, Italy. Back in 2013, he and his...
Read More...Study Finds E-Cigarettes Release Considerably Less Aldehydes Than Analogs
There has been a lot of controversy surrounding the amount of formaldehyde emitted by electronic cigarettes, which is why a team of researchers set out to test a number of e-cigarettes and measure the levels of the known carcinogenic in the produced vapor. They found that even at the highest settings, e-cigarettes produce much less formaldehyde, acetaldehyde and acrolein than tobacco cigarettes. Last year, a
Read More...Cambridge Study Finds No Evidence That E-Cigarette Ads Push Kids to Smoking
As Big Tobacco and e-cig companies continue pouring millions into e-cigarette advertising, there is growing concern that their marketing efforts could have negative consequences on youth, like pushing them to smoking tobacco cigarettes. Considering the history of tobacco ads and their effect on minors, one could argue that such fears are somewhat justified. However, a
Read More...Study Claiming E-Cigarettes Make It Harder to Quit Smoking Gets Blasted as Unscientific
A recent study co-authored by Dr. Sara Kalkhoran and Prof. Stanton Glanz that claimed electronic cigarettes not only are not helpful in helping people quit smoking, but actually make it 28% less likely to quit for those who use them, has recently been slammed as an "unscientific hatchet job" by other scientists and tobacco experts. Recently published in The Lancet...
Read More...Study Claiming That E-Cigarettes Could Cause Cancer Is Just Trying to Scare You
A team of researchers from the Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System recently published a study on the effect of electronic cigarette vapor on human cells and found that it causes damage that could promote the development of cancer. Lead researcher Dr. Jessica Wang-Rodriquez, a professor of pathology at the University of California, San Diego, and her team, created an extract from the vapour of two popular brands of e-cigarettes, which they used to treat...
Read More...Harvard Study Finds Flavorings Linked to Popcorn Lung Diseases in E-Cigarette Vapor
Researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health recently tested over 50 types of flavored e-cigarettes and e-liquids for diacetyl, acetoin and 2,3-pentanedione - food flavorings linked to bronchiolitis obliterans ,or popcorn lung disease - and detected their presence in two thirds of the samples. Although diacetyl and its two very similar substitutes are considered generally safe for consumption, that actually only applies to ingestion. Inhaling these widely...
Read More...Study Finds Electronic Cigarettes Help Smokers Quit
A new study conducted by Rutgers School of Public Health and the Schroeder Institute found that, within the last year, people who managed to quit smoking tobacco are four times more likely to be e-cigarette users than current smokers. The research lead by Cristine Delnevo, researcher at the School of Public Health, is base on the 2014 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) of 36,697 U.S. adults aged 18 and over who were questioned about daily e-cigarette...
Read More...Yale Study Finds Youth E-Cigarette Bans Lead to Increased Tobacco Smoking
According to a study conducted by Abigail Friedman, a researcher at Yale University, US states that have banned the use of electronic cigarettes by youths under 18-years-old have experienced an increase in traditional cigarette smoking among these youths. So much for the e-cigarette gateway theory that vaping opponents have been using as one of their...
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