There has been a new trend in smoking nowadays. E-cigarettes or simply known as vapes are gaining quite a huge amount of audience and enthusiasts. One of the major reasons of why vaping community increasing is due to its claim of effectively giving a less harmful alternative to regular cigarette smoking.
Even England's Public Health national director of Health and Wellbeing Kevin Fenton favors vape over regular cigarette smoking believing that vaping does not deliver the same concentration of harmful chemicals acquired in cigarette smoking, "Our recent world-leading review found that e-cigarettes carry a fraction of the risk of smoking - the harmful chemicals found in tobacco smoke, including carcinogens, are either absent in e-cigarette vapor or are at significantly lower levels than in tobacco smoke."
In a data published by the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 21 percent of adults in 2005 are into smoking regular cigarettes. In 2013, it declined to 18.8 percent while diving even further to 16.8 percent in 2015. Aside from the effective and long campaign against cigarette smoking, it seems vapes have also been a great influence in the statistic's result.
Although some vape fluids contain zero nicotine, most used e-cigarette liquid have specific amounts of nicotine in them. According to a study published in Journal of Oral Oncology, e-cigarette vapors cause damage to DNA and other healthy human cells.
Dr Jessica Wang-Rodriquez, professor of pathology at the University of California, San Diego, and lead researcher on the new study says, "Our study strongly suggests that electronic cigarettes are not as safe as their marketing makes them appear to the public. We were able to identify that e-cigarettes on the whole have something to do with increased cell death. We hope to identify the individual components that are contributing to the effect. Based on the evidence to date I believe they are no better than smoking regular cigarettes."
As of now, the US Food and Drug Administration has not imposed any regulations on vaping since there is not enough scientific evidence to base the regulations on.
