The latest findings of a small study from the University of Minnesota suggest that E-cigarettes increase the chance of mouth cancers by damaging DNA chemicals like formaldehyde in the saliva, exposures that can put users at greater risk of oral and throat cancer.

Even cigarette companies now openly acknowledge that their blockbuster products - combustible cigarettes - are dangerous, and are now pushing e-cigarettes instead.

Liquid in the e-cigarettes can contain harmful toxins and carcinogens including anti-freeze.

Teenagers are toting USB-looking Juul e-cigarettes to class, as the devices have become the new 'cool' thing to do, despite concerns over how addictive they may be.

Scientific study certainly moves faster than it did 50 years ago, but that still isn't nearly as fast as a trend moves.

The first reports that smoke might be harmful to health came in 1602, when an anonymous doctor wrote an essay noting that smoking seemed be followed by illnesses like those that killed chimney sweepers.

Yet the danger of cigarettes wasn't publicized until 1964, when the US Surgeon General announced the findings of a major report on smoking to 200 reporters.

Some of the earliest research on the latest nicotine delivery device has suggested that e-cigarette use may have the same constricting effect on blood vessels that combustible tobacco does.

And last month, a study of nearly 50,000 Americans found that urine samples from vapers and cigarette smokers alike contained elevated levels of carcinogenic compounds.

That finding was complicated by the fact that the vast majority of those who vaped were still smoking, too.

While it consisted of just five subjects, the new University of Minnesota study, however, uncovered evidence that e-cigarettes alone may be dangerous, too.




https://medfort.com.ng/e-cigarettes-increase-the-chance-of-mouth-cancers-by-damaging-dna/