E-cigarettes (cont.)

  • We previously pointed out that it was looking bad for these products.
  • Now work at New York University has established the first link between cancer and vaping nicotine in mice.
  • The usual provisos hold – results in humans might be different – but …
  • Out of 40 mice exposed to e-cigarette vapor with nicotine over 54 weeks, 22.5% developed lung cancer and 57.5% developed precancerous lesions on the bladder.
  • None of the 20 mice exposed to e-cigarette smoke without nicotine developed cancer over the four years they studied the mice, researchers said.
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