Vaping linked to rare lung disease, study reveals | Malay Mail

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PARIS, Dec 5 — Doctors treating a patient with a rare lung disease usually caused by exposure to industrial metals say it may instead be the first case linked to vaping. Electronic cigarettes are sold as safer alternatives to traditional tobacco products and as aids to stop smoking. But they have...

Earlier this year, the World Health Organisation warned that electronic smoking devices were ‘undoubtedly harmful and should therefore be subject to regulation’. — Reuters pic

Researchers at the University of California San Francisco said the patient had hard-metal pneumoconiosis, typically found in people exposed to metals such as cobalt or tungsten used in tool sharpening or diamond polishing. This was similar to other studies, suggesting that the metals were coming from the heating coils found in vaping devices, rather than from any particular type of re-fill — as has been previously thought.

Editorial co-author Jorgen Vestbo, Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the University of Manchester, said “E-cigarettes are harmful, they cause nicotine addiction and can never substitute for evidence-based smoking cessation tools.

 

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Again, vape used for cannabis. Give us some research that vape I'd bad without cannabis

Sejajar lah kemajuan, sejajar dgn kereta elektrik, rokok pun elektrik..

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