Vaping bans
With their cornucopia of different flavours, from the traditional to the unusual (iced citrus, cactus, red berries, all the way to crab legs and Champs Elysées), e-cigarettes have well and truly captured our attention. What’s more, due the lack of studies, they are considered harmless, hence becoming a fixture in our daily lives.
They are most popular among smokers trying to quit or cut back, and now even feature on smoking ban signs that you might have seen appearing in stations: "No smoking or vaping". Now, the very first verdicts on their innocence are being handed down.
According to a study 1 conducted in the USA, e-cigarettes apparently increase the risk of cancer and heart disease. The study reports that heart attack risk was 34% higher in their population of e- cigarette users compared to non-vapers. These devices also increase the risk of oral infections, so it might be worth thinking twice before you vape.
1 E-cigarette smoke damages DNA and reduces repair activity in mouse lung, heart, and bladder as well as in human lung and bladder cells Hyun-Wook Lee, Sung-Hyun Park, Mao-wen Weng, Hsiang-Tsui Wang, William C. Huang, Herbert Lepor, Xue-Ru Wu, Lung-Chi Chen, and Moon-shong TangPNAS February 13, 2018 115 (7) E1560-E1569; published ahead of print January 29, 2018 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1718185115