"Our understanding of e-cigarettes is still accumulating, but at this point, we are pretty confident that e-cigarettes are at least two-thirds to three-fourths as bad as cigarettes," says Stanton Glantz, Ph.D., professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco's Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education.
Thanks to new chemical cocktails, the increased nicotine delivery, and the power of that drug on the brain, Juuls and other e-cigarettes may in fact be worse than your average cancer stick.
ADVERTISEMENT. Looking strictly at the nicotine factor, e-cigarettes can be even worse than traditional cigs because they tend to deliver even more of the stimulant.
With newer vaping devices, unlike first-generation e-cigarettes, nicotine levels can be controlled, either by adjusting the contraption itself or purchasing e-juices of varying concentrations.
"Free-base nicotine, which you get in a cigarette and an older-generation e-cigarette, is very alkaline and hard to inhale, so it triggers a gag reflex, which limits the amount of nicotine per puff," he says.
While research shows e-cigarettes contain lower levels of carcinogens than regular cigarettes, their vapor, which many users assume is harmless, is downright dangerous.
As for Glantz's estimation that e-cigarettes are 66 percent to 75 percent as hazardous as combustible cigarettes? He doesn't believe that statement will hold up much longer: "With the data we should have about three or four years from now, I think we'll find that e-cigarettes are equally as bad or worse in terms of overall health risks."
https://www.fatherly.com/health-science/scientific-dangers-of-vaping/
Thanks to new chemical cocktails, the increased nicotine delivery, and the power of that drug on the brain, Juuls and other e-cigarettes may in fact be worse than your average cancer stick.
ADVERTISEMENT. Looking strictly at the nicotine factor, e-cigarettes can be even worse than traditional cigs because they tend to deliver even more of the stimulant.
With newer vaping devices, unlike first-generation e-cigarettes, nicotine levels can be controlled, either by adjusting the contraption itself or purchasing e-juices of varying concentrations.
"Free-base nicotine, which you get in a cigarette and an older-generation e-cigarette, is very alkaline and hard to inhale, so it triggers a gag reflex, which limits the amount of nicotine per puff," he says.
While research shows e-cigarettes contain lower levels of carcinogens than regular cigarettes, their vapor, which many users assume is harmless, is downright dangerous.
As for Glantz's estimation that e-cigarettes are 66 percent to 75 percent as hazardous as combustible cigarettes? He doesn't believe that statement will hold up much longer: "With the data we should have about three or four years from now, I think we'll find that e-cigarettes are equally as bad or worse in terms of overall health risks."
https://www.fatherly.com/health-science/scientific-dangers-of-vaping/
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