Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes or e-cigs) have recently become a popular alternative to smoking the conventional cigarette. Numerically speaking, there are now over 250 different e-cigarette brands which are being marketed as smoking cessation devices. There is not yet sufficient research on their long-term safety but there is a great support for the opinion that e-cigarettes […]
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Research suggests adults—not just teens—like electronic cigarette flavors
On February 6, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) began to enforce a previously-issued policy on unauthorized flavored cartridge-based e-cigarette products with the goal of addressing the current epidemic of youth use of e-cigarettes. A new study by researchers at Penn State finds that adults enjoy sweet e-cigarette flavors just as much as teens, […]
Cigarette smoke makes MRSA more resistant to antibiotics
Cigarette smoke makes MRSA more resistant to antibiotics ‘because the chemicals cause the superbug to mutate quicker’ Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus is already resistant to several drugs Scientists exposed six different MRSA strains in the lab to tobacco smoke The research team warned smoke may also cause resistance to other antibiotics Cigarette smoke may make MRSA […]
The German cancer aid, calls for more far-reaching E-cigarette bans
Smoking: price increases and extended the prohibitions in planning Smokers need to make expensive time. The medical Association President Frank Ulrich Montgomery, as well as the Chairman of the Board of the German cancer aid Gerd Nettekoven push for an extension of the tobacco advertising ban on E-cigarettes and tobacco heater, as well as massive […]
Cigarette smoking associated with increased risk of peripheral artery disease in African-Americans
African Americans who smoke cigarettes are more likely than those who don’t smoke to develop peripheral artery disease, according to new research in Journal of the American Heart Association, the Open Access Journal of the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is a narrowing of arteries other then those directly serving the […]
Dangerous addictive maker is starting tomorrow, is now also available in German stores
The inconspicuous E-cigarette with the name Juul looks like a long USB Stick and is indispensable for Nathan Behr of his life. Since his roommate gave him about a year ago, a Starter Kit with four flavors, the 20-Year-old, who is studying in Washington, in a conventional tobacco cigarette. Today "juult" he, like many of […]