Part of the challenge is that the risk-benefit calculation for e-cigarettes depends on who’s using them. For adult smokers, completely
switching to e-cigarettes may actually be less dangerous than smoking
combustible cigarettes. But that doesn’t mean they’re completely safe:
vapes haven’t been around long enough for us to know what their
long-term harms might be, and at the moment, there’s little regulatory
oversight of their ingredients, or their batteries — which sometimes,
but rarely, explode. As for non-smoking adults and minors under the age
of 18, they certainly shouldn’t be vaping because of the potential risks
for heart and lung problems, as well as nicotine addiction that might
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It’s a complicated public health message to digest — and today’s study, published in the journal JAMA Network Open, suggests that some of
it is getting lost in translation. It’s understandable that the public
doesn’t know what to think, because the science is still evolving,
according to Gideon St. Helen, a tobacco researcher at the University of
California, San Francisco, who was not involved in the study. “It’s not
like the tobacco control community is united in terms of their opinion
of electronic cigarettes,” he says. “Some people believe electronic
cigarettes are bad, and some people believe they’re like the second
coming of Christ.”
Jidong Huang, an associate professor of health management and policy at Georgia State University, wanted to know what that means for the
public’s perception of vapes. “We don’t know what Americans now think
about e-cigarettes,” he says. “Do they believe e-cigarettes are safe, or
do they believe that e-cigarettes are more harmful?” So for this study,
he and a team of researchers analyzed the results from two different
surveys: one was an online survey conducted by Georgia State University,
and the other was conducted by the National Cancer Institute. Starting
in 2012, both surveys asked thousands of adults how risky they thought
e-cigarettes were compared to regular cigarettes.
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