Are E-Cigarettes Good or Bad?

Górski, Paweł

doi:10.5603/arm.2017.0001

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“…For individuals who use e-cigarettes, it is important to remember that they also have many harmful properties and can create a real hazard for future smoking addiction [57]. Heat-not-burn (HNB) tobacco products produce aerosol like traditional cigarettes, but with a lower level of harmful constituents, including carcinogens.…”

Section: Evil Damned Evil and Cigarette Smoking…mentioning

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Ageing, Sex, Obesity, Smoking and COVID-19—Truths, Myths and Speculations

Białas

Kumor-Kisielewska

Górski

2020

Advances in Respiratory Medicine

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In early December 2019, in the city of Wuhan in Hubei Province, China, the first infections by a novel coronavirus were reported. Since then, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has been spreading to other cities and countries becoming the global emerging epidemiological issue and quickly reaching the status of a pandemic. Multiple risk factors of disease severity and mortality have been identified so far. These include old age, male sex, smoking, and obesity. This concise narrative review highlights the important role of these factors in the pathobiology and clinical landscape of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). We especially focused on their significant role in disease severity and mortality. However, in spite of intensive research, most of the presented pieces of evidence are weak and need further verification.

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Section: Evil Damned Evil and Cigarette Smoking…mentioning

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Ageing, Sex, Obesity, Smoking and COVID-19—Truths, Myths and Speculations

Białas

Kumor-Kisielewska

Górski

2020

Advances in Respiratory Medicine

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“…Although that, studies show that a lot of e-cigarette users smoke traditional cigarettes at the same time. Moreover, 19% of people younger than 20 years vapes even if they have never smoked (Górski, 2017). Results of survey conducted on people wanting to quit smoking showed a spectacular outcome of 80% of respondents declaring abstinence after starting using e-cigarette (Szmagaj and Jóźwiak, 2009).…”

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“…They are deposited in respiratory tract, especially lungs. Liquid's ingredients can cause inflammation in the lungs, be a source of oxidation stress and disturb balance of oxidants and antioxidants (Górski, 2017). Last year problem of dangers associated with e-cigarettes became one of the most popular topics because of respiratory tract disorders appearing among e-cigarettes users in the USA.…”

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Awareness of dangers of using e-cigarettes among society

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Zaniuk

Karakuła

et al. 2020

J Educ Health Sport

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E-cigarettes were introduced as a new way of quitting smoking and became a popular alternative to regular cigarettes. For a long time, e-cigarettes were considered harmless, however year after a year, new facts about their adverse effects are being discovered. This year in the USA, using e-cigarettes caused a lot of deaths among their users because of the newly discovered disease called EVALI. According to this, we decided to make a research on awareness of dangers associated with using e-cigarettes. We prepared a survey with 283 responses and analyzed literature related to the topic. Responses showed that 71,4% used to smoke cigarettes. Moreover, 81,6% uses or has used ecigarettes in the past, however, only 4,9% consider them harmless. The most common reasons for using e-cigarettes are: variety of liquid flavors (58,4%), desire to try something new (52,8%) and stress relief (32,9%). Quitting smoking was motivation only for 24,2% of responders. The fact that 72,3% do not plan to quit vaping is an alarming sign. Analysis of literature confirmed results of our survey, showing that there is a group of people using ecigarettes although they have never smoked. Mostly they are under 20 years old. Results of our study imply the necessity of taking up actions aimed to increase society awareness of dangers associated with using e-cigarettes and to do more research on vaping side effects.

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“…on one hand, heating instead of combustion should produce less cancerogenic substances and improve the health effect of e-cigarettes, but on the other hand, vaping has potential addictive effects, risk of other than nicotine substance usage, uncertainty about product engineering or quality of compounds and nicotine concentrations, possible harmful lung inflammation due to very small emitted particle size and increase of oxidative stress. the aforementioned brings about doubt about e-cigarettes having positive health effects [2].…”

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