Study Claims E-Cigarettes Are a Massive Gateway to Smoking for Teens
The gateway theory, according to which electronic cigarettes lead youths to smoking tobacco, has already been debunked numerous times, but a new study from Dartmouth College’s Norris Cotton Cancer Center, in New Hampshire, suggests that vaping is pushing hundreds of thousands of kids to smoke every year, while only helping a small number of adults quit. Using 2014 census data, national...
Read More...Controversial Study Finds Toxic Metals in E-Cigarette Vapor, But Don’t Freak Out Just Yet
Researchers from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, in Baltimore, Maryland recently published a study that suggests the coils in vaping devices may be leaking toxic metals like lead and nickel into the vapor when heated at high temperatures. After analyzing the e-liquid in the tank-style vaping devices of...
Read More...Misconceptions About E-Cigarette Safety Could Be Stopping Smokers from Quitting, Recent UK Report Finds
Public Health England recently released its latest report on electronic cigarettes, reinforcing their previous conclusions that electronic cigarettes are less harmful than tobacco cigarettes, and
Read More...Comprehensive Evidence Review Concludes That Vaping is Far Less Harmful Than Smoking
A recently published comprehensive meta-analysis of over 800 peer-reviewed scientific studies on the effects of vaping on human health has concluded that based on the evidence presently available "e-cigarettes are far less harmful than conventional cigarettes, containing fewer and lower levels of toxic substances" and "may help adult smokers quit smoking conventional cigarettes". Commissioned...
Read More...Controversial Study on Mice Suggests Vaping Could Cause Cancer in Humans
Public health experts and tobacco researchers have long been saying that it's not the nicotine that kills smokers, but the many other carcinogens contained by tobacco cigarettes. However, according to a recent study by researchers at New York University, the nicotine in electronic cigarette vapor can cause DNA damage and impair cells' DNA repair mechanism, putting users at risk of developing cancer.
Read More...Peer-Reviewed Clinical Trial Finds No Adverse Health Effects from Long-Term Vaping
Regular use of electronic cigarettes over long periods of time has no adverse impact on health, according to the findings of a 24-month peer-reviewed clinical trial due to be published next month in the journal Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology. Entitled "Evaluation of the Safety Profile of an Electronic Vapour Product Used for Two Years by Smokers in a Real-life Setting", the study...
Read More...Study Suggesting That Vaping Is a Gateway to Smoking Omits Critical Information
A recently-published study from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) claiming that non-smoking adolescents who use e-cigarettes and alternative forms of tobacco are more likely to start smoking conventional cigarettes has been called out for failing to present important information. The study, co-authored by Benjamin W. Chaffee, an assistant professor at the UCSF School of...
Read More...New Study Suggests E-cigarettes Can Help Smokers Quit
The result of a recent study conducted by researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina suggest that smokers using electronic cigarettes tend to smoke less and increase the number of quit attempts. Scientists led by Matthew Carpenter, a tobacco control and addiction expert at the cancer center at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), evaluated sixty tobacco smokers,...
Read More...3.5-Year-Long Study Finds No Health Concerns in Young E-Cigarette Users Who Never Smoked Tobacco
A team of Italian scientists followed a small group of young, daily e-cigarette users who had never smoked tobacco for a period of three years in order to analyze the effects of vaping on their health. They recently presented their findings at the 2017 Congress of Asian Pacific Society of Respirology (APSR) in Sydney. One of the main arguments of vaping opponents and lawmakers...
Read More...Press Release Claims Vaping Could Cause Cardiovascular Disease
It seems all you need to successfully attack vaping these days is a superficial press release. Never mind scientific evidence, research methodology and all that other boring stuff, just state some negative impacts of using electronic cigarettes and you're all set for heavy media coverage. We've covered
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