Until now we have not had direct estimates of the costs of treating the excess disease that e-cigarettes cause. Now, Yingning Wang and her UCSF colleagues have published Healthcare utilisation and expenditures attributable to current e-cigarette use among US adults that applies the same well-established methods they have used to estimate the medical costs of smokingContinue reading “Ecigs increased health costs by $15.1 billion in 2018”
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More evidence that ecigs cause lung disease in youth like cigs; dual use is worse
Richa Mukerjee and colleagues’ new paper, “ENDS, cigarettes, and respiratory illness: Longitudinal associations among US youth,” adds strong evidence to the conclusion that e-cigarettes cause lung disease (bronchitis, pneumonia, or chronic cough) among young people (age 12-17). They used 6 years of longitudinal data (where you follow the same people forward in time) to measureContinue reading “More evidence that ecigs cause lung disease in youth like cigs; dual use is worse”
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