![]() The study doesn't examine whether e-cigarettes effectively help smokers quit smoking completely, "which is the only way for smokers to truly protect their health and reduce their exposure to these toxicants," said Willmore of the Campaign for Tobacco-free Kids. Of 45 biomarkers – indicators of toxic chemical exposure that cause disease – the authors of a December 2018 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found 12 were detectable among those who vaped compared to none in nonsmokers. People who only vaped showed up to 98% lower concentrations of exposure biomarkers than people who only smoked. The main biomarkers of chemical exposure that cause cancer - which are monitored because it's too early to tell if vaping causes cancer - were much lower than smoked tobacco. New York University public health professor and clinical psychologist David Abrams says this study is largely consistent with Public Health England's findings. Nationwide, vaping is linked to at least 18 deaths and nearly 1,100 cases of lung injury reported by federal health officials. Four out of five of the cases involve the vaping of products with THC, the principal psychoactive compound in marijuana, alone or with nicotine. Smoking tobacco kills about 480,000 people a year in the USA, and the World Health Organization says up to half the people who smoke will die because of it. ![]() The relative safety of vaping compared with smoking is an important part of the consideration, and people on both sides of the debate use scientific studies as weapons in an intensifying public health battle. Products sold by the big tobacco companies that aren't popular with teens, such as Vuse, may be the only ones to pass muster, says American Vaping Association founder Gregory Conley. About a month after that, vaping companies will have to remove flavored e-cigarettes from stores until they receive FDA approval to reenter the market.īy May 2020, companies have to submit costly applications to the FDA with proof that their products are safe and help enough adults quit smoking to offset the harm in creating millions of vapers who may start smoking. Within weeks, the Food and Drug Administration is likely to finalize its ban on flavored e-cigarettes. ![]() The claim is central to the future of electronic cigarettes. In the past few months, vaping has turned into something critics say is little – or even no better – than smoking. ![]()
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