Do e-cigarettes increase the risk of cancer?

02:00 a.m

Monday, September 30, 2024

An American study prepared by doctors from the Keck College of Medicine in Southern California, in collaboration with a group of the US National Institutes of Health, revealed that electronic cigarettes affect the smoker’s DNA, increasing his risk of cancer.

According to the British newspaper “Daily Mail”, this study is the most complete of its kind in terms of research related to the harmful effects of e-cigarettes on health.

The new study showed that e-smoking with or without nicotine has very similar harm to regular smoking, as e-cigarette smokers suffer from the same genetic mutations in the gum cells inside their mouths as those found in the mouths of cigarette smokers.

The researchers reached this result after dividing the participants into 3 groups, each group with 10 people, distributed among regular smokers, electronic smokers, and smokers without nicotine, and they did studies on the DNA in the mouth cells of each group.

For her part, Dr. Stella Tomasi, who participated in the study, commented on the results, saying that e-cigarettes are not as safe as some people say, even if the amount of toxic and carcinogenic substances which is present in the e-liquid. much lower than that found in cigarettes.

She was surprised by the presence of genetic changes in the mouths of electronic smokers that scientists did not find in the mouths of normal smokers, asking for more studies on this topic.

The British newspaper believed that the results of this study add new reason for the British government to rush to implement restrictive laws to combat the growing phenomenon of slavery. electronic cigarettes among young people, which the British Royal College of Paediatrics described as “a disease. “

This college had mentioned in previous research that one in ten adults use e-cigarettes, around 5.6 million people, and almost a million people under the age of 18 have tried them.

In 2020, the National Health Service in Great Britain warned of a 276% increase in the number of patients of all ages admitted to hospitals due to vaping-related disorders.