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Do you think you already know more about vaping? Think again. Maybe what you know about vaping is just the tip of the iceberg. The popular misconception is that an electronic cigarette is a cessation tool.
The fact is, e-cigarettes are not yet recognized by medical science as a tool for facilitating smoking cessation. Contrary to popular assumptions, traditional smokers or tobacco smokers are the least informed about vaping.
So, for the benefit of tobacco smokers, here are the three most important things you should know about vaping.

It’s safer to use e-cigarettes than tobacco. This claim is …

Contrary to popular belief that vaping is a suitable smoking cessation tool, the University of Otago study revealed that it’s not as simple as it seems.
The study concluded that quitting via vaping is seldom straightforward because transitioning from smoking to Electronic Nicotine Delivery System (ENDS) may involve a considerable period of dual-use. This dual should be actively sustained over several months.
However, Nancy Loucas, co-director of the Aotearoa Vapers Community Advocacy (AVCA), pointed out that the researchers overlooked a critical factor when commenting on the study’s findings.
According to Loucas, …

A study was recently conducted by researchers from the International Agency for Research on Cancer in collaboration with the NN. Blokhin National Medical Research Center of Oncology in Russia. It revealed that individuals diagnosed with lung cancer experienced significant health improvement after quitting smoking.
While what’s ideal is that you don’t need to wait to have lung cancer before you quit smoking, this result brought hope to smokers with lung cancer. The research collected data from 517 recruits who were current smokers during the time they were diagnosed with early-stage lung cancer.
The population samples came…

Smokers know fully well that smoking cigarettes damage the lungs and that long-term use of tobacco may lead to lung cancer. This knowledge leads to the question; Does vaping cause the same lung damage as smoking?
For now, the good news for vapers is that there is preliminary evidence that says long-term vaping is not likely to cause lung damage. Professor Polosa, the renowned director of the Institute of Internal Medicine and Anti-Smoking Center at the University of Catania, proves it.
Prof. Riccardo Polosa and his colleagues followed a small group of young adults who had never smoked but regularly used e-cigarettes.
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