{"id":14243,"date":"2018-02-12T15:12:53","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T15:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=14243"},"modified":"2018-04-16T19:25:28","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T19:25:28","slug":"14243","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2018\/02\/14243\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaping causes cancer, new study warns"},"content":{"rendered":"

Human cells mutated faster than expected after exposure to e-cigarettes <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00b7 Previous studies have found e-cigarette smoke causes less cancerous damage than tobacco <\/p>\n

\u00b7 New York University exposed human cells and mice to e-cigarette smoke compared to filtered air <\/p>\n

\u00b7 They found the cells mutated much faster than expected <\/p>\n

\u00b7 The team warns this shows vaping is not as risk-free as we may think By MIA DE GRAAF HEALTH EDITOR FOR DAILYMAIL.COM <\/p>\n

PUBLISHED: 16:16, 29 January 2018 | UPDATED: 10:21, 30 January 2018 Vaping causes DNA mutations which lead to cancer, a new study warns. <\/p>\n

Researchers subjected cultured human bladder and lung cells to e-cigarette vapor which is designed to avoid the carcinogenic by products of tobacco. <\/p>\n

They found the cells mutated and became cancerous at a much higher rate than expected, and mice exposed to the smoke also suffered significant DNA damage. <\/p>\n

The New York University team warns their findings, published today, bring into question the popular belief that vaping nicotine is a safe alternative to smoking it in cigarettes. <\/p>\n

It comes just days after the Food and Drug Administration rejected Philip Morris’s ‘healthy’ iQOS electronic vaping product, saying it is not healthier than tobacco. <\/p>\n

New York University exposed human cells and mice to e-cigarette smoke compared to filtered air, and they found vaping did increase the rate of cancerous DNA mutations <\/p>\n

E-cigarette smoke (ECS) delivers nicotine through aerosols without burning tobacco. <\/p>\n

While tobacco smoke contains nitrosamines and many carcinogenic chemicals from burning, ECS contains nicotine and some relatively harmless organic solvents. <\/p>\n

As a result, ‘vaping’, as it is colloquially called, has been promoted as not carcinogenic; a safer substitute for tobacco. <\/p>\n

A recent study even found that e-cigarette smokers had 97 percent less lung carcinogens in their body fluids compared to tobacco smokers. <\/p>\n

However, experts warn that does not mean it is safe and void of cancer risk. <\/p>\n

The new study by Moon-shong Tang, of the environmental medicine department, was an investigation into the belief that other products in tobacco – not nicotine – are the ones that cause cancer and other health woes. <\/p>\n

They subjected mice and human cells to the vapor. <\/p>\n

They concluded that although vaping delivers fewer carcinogens than tobacco smoke, e-cigarette smokers might have a higher risk than non-smokers of developing lung and bladder cancers and heart diseases. <\/p>\n

Last week the FDA voted unanimously against Philip Morris International’s claims that its e-cigarette could predict lower rates of diseases and death in humans. <\/p>\n

The penlike device heats Marlboro-branded sticks of tobacco but stops short of burning them. <\/p>\n

It is already sold in more than 30 countries and Philip Morris aims to make it the first ‘reduced risk’ tobacco product ever sanctioned by the US. <\/p>\n

FDA clearance would mark a major milestone in efforts by both the industry and government officials to provide alternative tobacco products to US smokers. <\/p>\n

The adult smoking rate has fallen to an all-time low of 15 percent, though smoking remains the nation’s leading preventable cause of illness and death. <\/p>\n

Source: http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-5325945\/Vaping-causes-cancer-new-study-warns.html 29th Jan 2018<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Human cells mutated faster than expected after exposure to e-cigarettes \u00b7 Previous studies have found e-cigarette smoke causes less cancerous damage than tobacco \u00b7 New York University exposed human cells and mice to e-cigarette smoke compared to filtered air \u00b7 They found the cells mutated much faster than expected \u00b7 The team warns this shows […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-nicotine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}