02:00 p.m
Monday, September 30, 2024
An American study prepared by doctors from the Keck College of Medicine in Southern California, in cooperation 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 comprehensive 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 harms to regular smoking, as e-cigarette smokers suffered from the same genetic mutations in the cheek 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 containing 10 people, distributed among regular smokers, electronic smokers, and smokers without nicotine, and they conducted studies on the DNA in the mouth cells of each group.
For her part, Dr. Stella Tomasi, a participant in the study, commented on the results, saying that e-cigarettes are not as safe as some people claim, even if the level of toxic and carcinogenic substances present in the e-liquid is much lower than what is found in cigarettes.
She expressed her surprise at the presence of genetic changes in the mouths of electronic smokers that scientists did not find in the mouths of ordinary smokers, calling for more studies on this subject.
The British newspaper considered that the results of this study add a new reason for the British government to rush to enact deterrent laws to combat the phenomenon of increasing electronic cigarette addiction among young people, which the British Royal College of Pediatrics described as an “epidemic.”
This college had previously announced in previous research that one in ten adults use e-cigarettes, approximately 5.6 million people, while nearly one million people under the age of 18 have tried them.
In 2020, the National Health Service in Britain warned of a 276% increase in the number of patients of all ages admitted to hospitals due to disorders related to vaping.
