NEW YORK, Dec 17 — New US research has found that using e-cigarettes, more commonly known as e-cigs, could significantly increase the risk of developing chronic lung diseases such as asthma, bronchitis, emphysema or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Carried out by researchers at UC San...
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Carried out by researchers at UC San Francisco, the new study analysed data gathered from the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health , which tracked e-cigarette and tobacco use and new diagnoses of lung disease in over 32,000 American adults between 2013 and 2016., showed that current and former e-cigarette users were 1.3 times more likely to develop chronic lung disease, while tobacco smokers were 2.6 times more likely.
“We concluded that e-cigarettes are harmful on their own, and the effects are independent of smoking conventional tobacco,” Glantz said. “For most smokers, they simply add e-cigarettes and become dual users, significantly increasing their risk of developing lung disease above just smoking.”
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