A recent study has claimed that using e-cigarettes – battery-powered gadgets that heat liquid nicotine into vapour – might be just as harmful as smoking conventional cigarettes. He said their study findings suggested that e-cigarettes could be “just as bad as cigarettes.”The study found an increase in mucin 5AC, a mucus secretion associated with chronic bronchitis and asthma, in both e-cigarette and cigarette users. Smokers have been opting for e-cigarettes as a “healthier alternative” to smoking tobacco since they came on the market in 2007 but very little is known about the long-term effects of vaping. The study, published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, examined 44 sputum samples from e-cigarette users, current cigarette smokers, and non-smokers. The authors made it clear that most of the e-cigarette smokers were formerly cigarette smokers, which made it hard to clearly identify whether these results were only related to e-cigarette use.

Source: Dhaka Tribune October 26, 2017 08:03 UTC