Belgian Study Suggests Second Generation E-Cigarettes May Help Smokers Quit
The findings of a new study evaluating the effectiveness of second generation electronic cigarettes in reducing tobacco cigarette consumption and quitting smoking suggest e-cigs work much better than traditional smoking cessation therapies. Belgian scientists from the universities of Leuven and Antwerp recently set out to investigate the effectiveness of second generation electronic cigarettes as quit-smoking aids by doing a randomized control trial. A number of 48...
Read More...Questionable Study Claims E-Cigarettes May Not Be Effective in Helping People Quit Smoking
According to a new medical study scheduled to be published in the journal Cancer, electronic cigarettes are not an effective smoking cessation tool for cancer patients trying to quit. For this study, researchers observed a total of 1,047 cancer patients who continued to smoke and were therefore enrolled in a tobacco treatment program at a comprehensive cancer center during 2012 and 2013. The six-month study followed the subjects' smoking status, nicotine...
Read More...UK Study Finds No Evidence That E-Cigarettes Are a Gateway to Smoking for Children
A new study released by UK anti-smoking charity Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) has found no evidence that electronic cigarettes encourage children to take up smoking. Out of the 2,000 children aged 11 - 18 surveyed for the ASH study, just under 10% have ever tried an electronic cigarettes. The fact that in 2013 a similar survey showed that only 7% of children in the UK had ever used an e-cig might sound alarming, however, researchers also found that e-cigarette usage...
Read More...New Study Claims Electronic Cigarettes Cause Asthma and Emphysema
A new study recently presented during the 2014 European Respiratory Society congress, in Munich - the world's biggest respiratory meeting - suggests using electronic cigarettes may cause serious respiratory conditions like asthma and emphysema. Entitled "E-cigarette exposure induces pathological responses that result in lung tissue destruction and airway hyper reactivity in mice",
Read More...Study Finds E-Cigarette Vapor Is Considerably Safer Than Cigarette Smoke but Contains Some Toxic Elements
An international team of researchers recently published the results of a scientific study meant to quantify the levels of exposure to harmful organic compounds and toxic metals in second-hand electronic cigarette vapor, in order to provide insight to regulatory authorities. They found that while e-cigarette vapor does contain increased levels of toxic metals like chromium and nickel, they are overall much healthier than tobacco cigarettes. "Our results demonstrate that...
Read More...Review of E-Cigarette Studies Concludes E-Cigs Are Less Harmful Than Tobacco Cigarettes
According to a review of 81 electronic cigarette studies conducted by an international team of healthcare experts and tobacco researchers, electronic cigarettes are much less harmful, if at all, to users and bystanders, when compared to tobacco cigarettes. The long-term effects of electronic cigarettes on human health may still be unknown,...
Read More...Recent Studies Confirm Staggering Growth Rate of Electronic Cigarettes
According to a recently released study by the Harvard School of Public Health, on the use of electronic cigarettes in the European Union, over 30 million Europeans have tried e-cigarettes at least once. Another one, published in the same journal (Tobacco Control), found that the number of electronic cigarettes and e-liquids available online has soared in the past few years. The findings in both works speak loads about the staggering growth of a product considered by analysts...
Read More...New Study Shows That, Unlike Tobacco Cigarettes, Electronic Cigarettes Have No Acute Adverse Effects on Heart Function
Smoking has been identified as a cause for life-threatening heart diseases a long time ago, but little is known about the effects electronic cigarette use has on the human heart. A team of Greek doctors at the Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center recently conducted a study, comparing the effects vaping has on acute heart function, compared to smoking. Doctor Konstantinos Farsalinos and his team performed echocardiographic examinations on 36 healthy...
Read More...Five-Year Survey Shows Electronic Cigarettes Help Smokers Quit
According to a five-year survey, involving 6,000 British smokers, conducted by researchers at University College London, electronic cigarettes increase smoking cessation success rates by 60 percent, compared to nicotine products like patches and gum or willpower alone. The wide-scale research spanned from 2009 to 2014, during which time the efforts of 5,863 smokers who wanted to quit were closely monitored by scientists at University College London. At the end of the...
Read More...New Study Claims E-Cigs May Strengthen Life-Threatening Bacteria
E-cigarettes are gateway to smoking, they contain dangerous chemicals, they are potentially deadlier than analogs. These are the same old arguments electronic cigarette opponents always use when trying to make their case. But, now, they finally have some new material to work with. According to a new study conducted by researchers at VA San Diego Healthcare System and UC San Diego, e-cigarette vapor may make the MRSA bacteria even harder to treat. Laura E. Crotty...
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