Comments by "Allison James" (@allisonjames2923) on "" video.
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@yourgflikesit Critical Care Paramedic actually, not a cereal box Dr. And here’s some info for you “Studies suggest that vaping may worsen bronchitis and asthma, raise blood pressure, interfere with brain development in young users, suppress the immune system, and increase the risk of developing a chronic lung disease. Studies of mice and cell cultures have found that the vapor or extracts from vapes damage the chemical structure of DNA.
Still, the limited number of long-term human studies has made it hard to know what the health outcomes of e-cigarette users will be in the future. Conclusive studies linking commercial cigarette use to deaths from heart disease and cancer didn't emerge until the mid-1950s, decades after manufacturers began mass production and marketing in the early 20th century. Years could pass before researchers gain a clearer understanding of the health implications of long-term e-cigarette use, according to Nigar Nargis, PhD, senior scientific director of tobacco control research at the American Cancer Society.
"There hasn't been any such study to establish the direct link from ENDS to cancer, but it is understood that it [vaping] may promote the development of cancer and lung damage and inflammation," Nargis said.
For decades, advocates built awareness of the harms of tobacco use, which led to a sharp decline in tobacco-related illnesses such as lung cancer. But Hilary Schneider, Maine's director of government relations for the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, said she fears the uptick in the use of vapes ― especially among those who never smoked or those who use both combustible cigarettes and e-cigarettes ― may reverse declines in the rates of smoking-relating diseases.
Multiple studies suggest that inhaling chemicals found in e-cigarettes — including nicotine-carrying aerosols — can damage arteries and inflame and injure the lungs.
Vapes "basically have created a pediatric tobacco-use epidemic," Schneider said. "What we're seeing is unprecedented tobacco use rates, higher rates than we've seen in decades."
From: What Will Vaping Lead To? Emerging Research Shows Damage, and Addiction - Medscape - Lara Salahi
April 13, 2023
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@phoebeblaze3668 I haven’t seen any scientific evidence that people’s health IS improving, but if some people feel that it is, it’s probably because they’re causing a different kind of damage to their lungs. Smoking causes heat damage to the cilia in the airways as well as the inhalation of numerous harmful chemicals. By vaping, they’re not getting the burning of their lungs, and they’re inhaling some different chemicals. Although I admit it would probably be more accurate for me to have said that researchers are discovering that vaping may be just as harmful as smoking. “Solvents used in e-cigarette cartridges, such as propylene glycol, may promote irritation of the nasopharynx and squamous metaplasia. Nicotine acts directly on parasympathetic ganglia to cause bronchoconstriction, which can result in structural and functional changes of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease over time.
Results from a longitudinal cohort study suggest that e-cigarettes are an independent risk factor for incident respiratory disease. This study followed more than 32,000 US adults who were free of respiratory disease at baseline for self-reported respiratory disease during a period of up to 4 years. After controlling for clinical and demographic variables and the use of combustible cigarettes, the odds ratio for respiratory disease associated with either current or former e-cigarette use was 1.3. The respective odds ratio for current combustible cigarette use was 2.6, and the respective odds ratio for the combined use of combustible and e-cigarettes was 3.3. All of these findings were statistically significant.” From: My Patient Vapes. How Should I Counsel Him? - Medscape
Charles P. Vega, MD
DISCLOSURES October 17, 2022
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Who knew that inhaling high concentrations of chemicals directly into the lungs might be bad for you 🤔🙄🤦♀️ Vaping is shaping up to be even worse than smoking at causing physical complications now. But even though we know cigarette smoking is terrible for us, the gov won’t ban that, because the tobacco companies don’t want smoking banned & it’s a huge revenue raiser. Hence why they pour money into the film & TV industry & why there’s so much totally irrelevant smoking on movies & TV, since subliminal advertising like that does have an effect if you’re not vehemently opposed to smoking. And if you think that what you see & hear doesn’t affect you, remember this comment when you next see an ad for chocolate, a burger, chips etc & start craving some. Or when you use a word that didn’t exist until the last decade or so, like ‘vaping’. Unless you specifically studied it for some reason, you picked it & many other slang terms up due to what you’ve seen, heard & experienced. It’s no coincidence that there’s a multi $trillion advertising industry, after all!
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