A new in vitro study shows that aerosols from nicotine vapes do not produce the cellular effects caused by cigarette smoke that lead to vascular damage and the onset of a host of heart diseases.
It also found that aerosols from heated tobacco products produced substantially fewer adverse cellular effects compared to cigarettes.
This research is critical because cigarette smokers are two-to-four times more likely to get heart disease than nonsmokers, and one in five smoking-related deaths is caused by cardiovascular diseases.
But the significance of the study published last month stretches beyond these specific findings. Because it’s part of the Replica Project, whose mission is to replicate the most well-known studies conducted by tobacco companies in order to independently assess their scientific validity. Ten international scientific studies will be replicated to compare toxicity levels in conventional cigarette smoke with those from e-cigs and heated products, using human cells.
Helen Redmond – Filter – 2022-08-11.
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