A new study shows that e-cigarette vaping negatively affects skin wound healing, causing damage similar to that of traditional cigarette smoking. Researchers, led by a team from Boston Medical Center (BMC), found exposure to both e-cigarette vaping and traditional cigarettes in experimental models resulted in increased tissue death, which delays wound healing. These findings, published...
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Electronic cigarettes: many questions, limited research
Electronic cigarettes (ECIGs) are booming in popularity—but there’s still only limited evidence on their potential health risks, or their advertised benefits in helping people to quit smoking, according to a research review in the July/August Journal of AddictionMedicine, the official journal of the American Society of Addiction Medicine. Based on their review, Alison B. Breland, PhD,...
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E-cigarettes may trigger unique and potentially damaging immune responses
Oct. 18, 2017–E-cigarettes appear to trigger unique immune responses as well as the same ones that cigarettes trigger that can lead to lung disease, according to new research published online in the American Thoracic Society’s American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. In “E-Cigarette Use Causes a Unique Innate Immune Response in the Lung, Involving Increased Neutrophilic Activation and...