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Many people believe that vaping is a less dangerous option than smoking, but research is showing that there are really more health hazards connected to it.
Researchers have found concerning health problems associated with vaping, which can take over your body just seconds after you puff on an e-cigarette.
Long promoted as a less dangerous option to smoking tobacco products, there is mounting evidence that vaping is harmful as more and more research is conducted on devices that mimic smoking cigarettes.
In order to combat the growing use of disposable vapes by youngsters as young as 11, the government of the United Kingdom has stated that they would be outlawed in 2025. Additionally, a vaping tax that would more than treble the cost of the liquids used in refillable vapes is being proposed.
A first-of-its-kind generational smoking ban is being implemented as the habit gains popularity among younger people as part of Sir Keir Starmer’s government’s broader campaign to enhance public health.
A recent study published today (November 25) by the Radiological Society of North America (RNSA) has revealed that both vapes and cigarettes can have acute effects on your “vascular function”—even when no nicotine is inhaled.
The chemicals and poisons included in tobacco smoke are much higher than those found in vapes. According to the RNSA, many people think that e-cigarettes are less dangerous than smoking cigarettes.
We need to reconsider the effects of vaping on our bodies, as the harm is still present, according to a recent study conducted by Marianne Nabbout, MD.
At the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, Dr. Nabbout, a radiology resident, stated that “e-cigarettes have long been marketed as a safer alternative to regular tobacco smoking.”
“Some believe that e-cigarettes don’t contain any of the harmful products, such as free radicals, found in regular tobacco cigarettes, because no combustion is involved.”
Dr. Nabbout and colleagues’ study at the University of Pennsylvania aimed to determine the immediate effects of vaping both with and without nicotine from e-cigarettes, as well as the acute effects of smoking cigarettes on vascular function, or the body’s capacity to pump blood through it as necessary.
To present, 31 healthy smokers and vapers between the ages of 21 and 49 have been involved in the study.
Two MRI tests were performed on study participants in three different sessions, one before and one after each of the following smoking/vaping episodes: tobacco cigarettes, e-cigarette aerosol with nicotine, and e-cigarette aerosol without nicotine.
To stop the flow of blood, a cuff was applied to the upper leg. Venous oxygen saturation, which measures the amount of oxygen in the blood that returns to the heart after giving oxygen to the body’s tissues, and femoral artery flow velocity, which measures the speed of blood flow in the femoral artery, were assessed after the femoral artery was deflated. A unique kind of MRI known as phase-contrast MRI was used to quantify cerebrovascular reactivity, or blood flow in the brain.
The baseline scans of ten non-smokers and non-vapers, aged 21 to 33, were then compared to the data of the smokers and vapers.
The superficial femoral artery’s resting blood flow velocity significantly decreased after inhaling each kind of vaping or smoking. This artery provides oxygenated blood to the entire lower body as it travels throughout the thigh.
After inhaling e-cigarettes with nicotine, the reduction in vascular function was most noticeable, followed by e-cigarettes without nicotine. Regardless of whether nicotine was present in the e-cigarettes, vapers also had decreased venous oxygen saturation. This implies that vaping causes an instant reduction in the lungs’ ability to absorb oxygen.
Dr. Nabbout says that the public should be aware that vaping might not be risk-free. In the end, research will be used to help direct the regulation of such items in the interest of public health, she stated. It is usually advised to abstain from vaping and smoking.
