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E-cigarettes not a safer alternative to smoking, expert says

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8 pointsPaulHoule6 comments

Didn't read the study, but from the article:

"In the study, a group of nearly 20 participants attended two lab sessions where they smoked both a traditional cigarette and a pod-based e-cigarette. To measure the effects of the vaping and smoking, the research team measured the rate at which participants' blood vessels dilated back to their normal size. Results showed delays in that process for both electronic and traditional cigarette use."

Maybe an indicator for where future research should go, but not a basis for an overall safety judgment.

Yeah quite likely that Ny nicotine delivery method is going to have a similar affect in that regard. Weird way to go about comparing safety profiles

Right? All that shows is that, by vaping, instead of smoking a cigarette, you get nicotine into your bloodstream. Which anybody vaping could tell you happens, otherwise they wouldn't be so addicted to it. Does vaping cause lung cancer? What do your lungs look like after 1, 5, 10 years of vaping? I am not a medical study, but that study isn't showing either of those things. It sounds like the "researcher" has an agenda to prove, which isn't how the scientific method works.

A previous study that came to the opposite conclusion: vaping is certainly not as harmful as smoking tobacco.

https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/article/41/28/2612/587566...

Really, e-cigarettes are slightly safer, but for totally other reason.

Before, we have huge number of deaths, people fell asleep with burning cigarette, and happen fire, and it is really hard to save yourself, when your clothes are burning.

- Modern e-cigarettes are very rare cause of fire.

Also, there are inherent health issues that come from breathing in the smoke from any burning substance. Vaping doesn't produce combustion by-products, so that source of health issues is eliminated.

That's hardly the only thing that makes smoking hazardous to your health, but it's one of the major ones. Getting rid of that alone makes the practice safer. Not safe, but safer.

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