Tag Archives: health
E-cigarettes could be available on NHS to tackle smoking rates
E-cigarettes could soon be prescribed on the NHS in England to help people stop smoking tobacco products.The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Ag...
COVID-19 and Vaping
A new paper from researchers at University College London looked at COVID-19 and vaping. It rounds off a year where many have sought to demonise electronic ciga...
Vaping During Pregnancy
Suzanne Froggatt, Nadja Reissland, and Judith Covey from the Psychology Department at Durham University have published findings from a study looking at infants ...
DNA damage from vaping is 96% less than smoking
A 2016 study led by Linsey Haswell of British American Tobacco (BAT) suggests that vaping causes as much as 96 percent less DNA damage compared to smoking. Brit...
Study shows vaping nicotine enhances creativity, boosts alpha brain waves
Unfortunately, obtaining the creativity benefits of nicotine through conventional cigarettes involves the burning of tobacco leaves which emits a tar-filled smo...
Vaping – the rise in five charts
For travellers looking forward to their summer holidays, what to pack can be a source of stress. But did you know that taking an e-cigarette with you to countri...
Flavored e-cig aldehyde emissions are ‘589-fold lower’
Back in November of 2016, the American Chemical Society (ACS) published a paper claiming that certain e-liquid flavorings are enormously high in multiple toxic ...
Vapers and non-smokers have the same flourishing gut flora
The first study of its kind has found that people who vape have the same mix of gut bacteria as non-smokers, whilst smokers have significant changes to their mi...
‘Heat-not-burn’ cigarettes still release cancer-causing chemicals
A new type of “heat-not-burn” cigarette releases some of the same cancer-causing chemicals found in traditional cigarette smoke, a recent experiment suggests. R...
New long-term study proves vaping has no adverse effects on heart or lungs
After studying a control group of over 200 vapers for a full 2-years, scientists now claim that vaping causes no adverse health effects either short- or long-te...