Thomas A. Wills and colleagues just published “E-cigarette Use and Respiratory Disorder: An Integrative Review of Converging Evidence from Epidemiological and Laboratory Studies” in European Respiratory Journal that, as the title indicates, sums up the evidence linking e-cigarette use with respiratory disease epidemiological studies of the population as a whole as well as briefly summarizingContinue reading “Broad range of studies show e-cigs increase lung disease risk by 40-50%”
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Major EU scientific committee highlights e-cig dangers, gateway effect
On 23 September 2020, the European Commissions’ Scientific Committee on Health, Environmental and Emerging Risks (SCHEER) issued its Preliminary Opinion on electronic cigarettes at a request from the Commission “to assist the Commission in assessing the most recent scientific and technical information on e-cigarettes. Findings presented in the scientific opinion will feed into the Commission’sContinue reading “Major EU scientific committee highlights e-cig dangers, gateway effect”
A new source of danger from e-cigs: The heater coil
There has been a lot of attention to what elements of e-cigarette liquids cause e-cigarette and vaping induced lung injury (EVALI), the serious, and sometimes fatal, lung disease that was identified in vapers in the summer of 2019. There is now good evidence that vitamin E acetate, a chemical used to dilute THC in marijuanaContinue reading “A new source of danger from e-cigs: The heater coil”
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