How safe are e-cigarettes? The debate continues

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How safe are e-cigarettes? The debate continues
Do Electronic Cigarette cause less harm than smoking, and will they help me quit?

These are the key questions that people who smoke but wish to quit raise with their healthcare professionals.

They are also hot topics in the ongoing debate about the potential benefits and harms of e-cigarettes and their regulation.

The authors of the new review, who work at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary in the United Kingdom, say that their aim is to inform this discussion.

The Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh has now published a paper on their findings.

"Fewer people," says corresponding study author Abhi Mathur, of the Department of Respiratory Medicine, "are smoking conventional tobacco cigarettes and more people are vaping."

E-cigarettes are battery-operated devices that people use to inhale, or vape, substances — one of which is nicotine. There are several types across hundreds of brands, and the market is growing.

Conventional cigarettes also deliver nicotine into the lungs through inhalation of tobacco smoke. However, they also deliver toxins such as tar and carbon monoxide deep inside the lungs.

Vaping does introduce some of the harmful substances that accompany cigarette smoke into the body, but research suggests that the levels present in e-cigarettes are much lower.