The safety of e-cigarettes has been a topic of debate over the past few years. If you\u2019ve had trouble getting a definitive answer, a new summary of evidence may finally offer some insight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A new review from a team at the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary\nfound both good news and bad news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The good news<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n People who switched from regular cigarettes to e-cigarettes\nare reducing their cancer risk because they\u2019ve cut their exposure to the more than\n70 known carcinogens found in tobacco smoke. In fact, the \u201ccancer potency\u201d of\ne-cigarettes is less than 0.5% of that found in regular cigarettes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition, people who smoke tobacco cigarettes have a\ngreater risk of heart problems, so it\u2019s easy to see why more people who smoke\ntobacco actually diet of cardiovascular disease than cancer. This is mainly\ncaused by ultrafine particles entering the bloodstream when cigarette smoke is\ninhaled. These particles cause inflammation in the body, which hurts the\ncirculatory system, including the heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Although the nicotine in e-cigarettes is addictive, it\u2019s the substances (e.g., tar) in tobacco cigarettes that do the most harm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Vaping has probably helped smokers reach the highest quit\nrates ever (in 2017). Studies have found that the No. 1 reason people have\nstarted vaping is to quit smoking tobacco cigarettes and that e-cigarettes have\na high correlation to quitting rates for tobacco smokers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The bad news<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Vaping also puts ultrafine particles into the bloodstream, increasing\nthe risk of heart disease. Plus, the vapor can cause a particular immune cell\nin the lung to cause inflammation and possibly block the body\u2019s ability to\nclear bacteria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Health experts are on board with vaping as a less harmful\nalternative to smoking, but don\u2019t encourage people to start vaping who don\u2019t\nalready smoke at all. This is especially a concern with young people who have\nnever smoked but started vaping. Studies have shown that vaping among 14- to\n30-year-olds is linked to a higher chance that they\u2019ll start smoking tobacco\ncigarettes later. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The safety of e-cigarettes has been a topic of debate over the past few years. If you\u2019ve had trouble getting a definitive answer, a new summary of evidence may finally offer some insight. A new review from a team at the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary found both good news and bad news. The good news People […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[690],"tags":[973,870,974,719],"class_list":["post-13348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wellness","tag-e-cigarettes","tag-smoking","tag-vaping","tag-wellness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}