Vaping
‘We were shocked’: Vaping considerably increases lung cancer risk among people who smoke
People who vaped and smoked cigarettes appeared four times more likely to develop lung cancer compared with those who only smoked, according to study results presented at American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting.
Q&A: Uncovering how vaping additives injure lungs, impact breathing
Back in 2019, the CDC declared e-cigarette or vaping product use-associated lung injury an epidemic and later expressed confidence in the additive, vitamin E acetate, being strongly linked to this outbreak.
Cytisinicline effective for e-cigarette cessation
Cytisinicline was associated with a greater rate of nicotine-containing e-cigarette cessation compared with placebo during 12 weeks of treatment and up to 4 weeks posttreatment, according to results from the phase 2 ORCA-VI trial.
E-cigarette content regulations not adequately enforced on social media
NEW YORK — FDA regulations and Instagram content policies designed to minimize youth exposure to content promoting electronic nicotine delivery systems are not well enforced, according to recent research.
Q&A: What happened when the CDC stopped tracking lung injuries from vaping?
In February 2020, around the time the COVID-19 pandemic was picking up, the CDC stopped tracking a national outbreak of lung injuries related to vaping, which included many cases in teens.
Top in cardiology: E-cigarettes linked to heart failure; FDA labels LVAD recall as class I
People who used e-cigarettes had a 19% elevated risk for heart failure compared with never users, according to a study of 175,667 participants that was presented at the American College of Cardiology Scientific Session.
E-cigarette use could raise heart failure risk up to 19%
ATLANTA — Individuals with a history of e-cigarette use may have increased risk for incident heart failure, regardless of concomitant cigarette, cigar, hookah or smokeless cigarette use, a speaker reported.
E-cigarette use lowers lung function, heightens blood pressure, heart rate
Following 15-minute use of an electronic nicotine delivery system, or ENDS, lung function fell and blood pressure and heart rate rose in long-term users vs. nonusers, according to results published in CHEST.
Young, female e-cigarette users more likely to have asthma attack, use health services
Young females using e-cigarettes had greater odds for an asthma attack than young males not using e-cigarettes, according to results published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.
References to e-cigarette brands, e-juice flavors on TikTok rose from 2019 to 2022
TikTok videos that feature e-juice flavor names and e-cigarette brand names increased in prevalence from 2019 to 2022, according to results published in Nicotine & Tobacco Research.