Vape Studies Roundup
Four studies looking at various topics related to vaping.
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by Dave Cross
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The fourth piece of work is only available in the form of preliminary findings, presented to the American Heart Association's (AHA) Scientific Sessions 2017. While the AHA is staunchly against vaping, the findings are relatively positive.
They found that vapers are over 6 times more likely to be exposed to second-hand cigarette smoke. Also, vapers are over four times more likely to be regular alcohol drinkers. Finally, we are less likely to have graduated from university, use illegal drugs frequently and have reasonable salaries.
Most importantly, they found that vapers are most likely to be current or former smokers. The link to being used to successfully quit smoking quickly prompted the AHA to issue a press release advising against vaping!
The North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Centre tell the readers of this month’s Tobacco Control journal that they discovered over three thousand online vape vendors in 2014, up from 960 in 2013. This worries them for some reason.
The study’s lead, Rebecca Williams said: "This study shows that e-cigarettes have been widely available online to minors and adults alike, at extremely cheap prices, with a wide variety of youth-appealing flavours, and making many unsubstantiated health claims to draw in customers.”
We guess that once lots of young non-smokers begin buying vape products we ought to be concerned too. Until then, we suggest Williams has a look at the data behind electronic cigarette use in America and Europe.
There are probably no polite suggestions as to what Stanton Glantz should do or where he should place his “research”. The crack team hunted for a relationship between spending on electronic cigarettes and disease symptoms. They looked at data from the Tobacco and Attitudes Beliefs Survey and found those who spent more on e-cigarettes were more likely:
- to report chest pain
- to notice blood when brushing their teeth
- to have sores or ulcers in their mouth
- to have more than one cold
People reading Stanton Glantz studies are reported to suffer from more frequent bouts of headaches and nausea.
Better news, "There's evidence here that Tennessee smokers are using e-cigarettes as an aid to quit smoking,” said Ransom Wyse (Tennessee Department of Health) in response to a Tennessee-based study concluding that tobacco smokers were more likely to succeed if they used electronic cigarettes. Also, the research declares that the vast majority of vapers are ex-smokers – again pouring cold water on any notion that it is a gateway to smoking.
Tom Eckstein, from the epidemiology firm Arundel Metrics, said "The data show, in my mind, that we're starting to find the effects of e-cigarette use on the nicotine problem, particularly in Tennessee and how it's factoring into getting people off that addiction."
Dave Cross
Journalist at POTVDave is a freelance writer; with articles on music, motorbikes, football, pop-science, vaping and tobacco harm reduction in Sounds, Melody Maker, UBG, AWoL, Bike, When Saturday Comes, Vape News Magazine, and syndicated across the Johnston Press group. He was published in an anthology of “Greatest Football Writing”, but still believes this was a mistake. Dave contributes sketches to comedy shows and used to co-host a radio sketch show. He’s worked with numerous start-ups to develop content for their websites.
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