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Electronic cigarette aerosols and copper nanoparticles induce mitochondrial stress and promote DNA fragmentation in lung fibroblasts — ScienceDirect

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Whenever my patients asked me if vaping was safer than smoking, I’d say, “We don’t know yet. In my opinion, I can imagine that inhaling any kind of smoke would still cause inflammatory changes in your lung tissue that would predispose you to cancer. Science doesn’t know the exact mechanism or how frequently it happens, but I’m sure it one day will.”

One day has come. The chemicals and copper contained within vaping aerosols has been shown to cause genotoxic and mitotoxic effects on lung cells. Check out the link to learn more.

I want to emphasize that this isn’t necessarily proof that vaping will absolutely cause cancer. It’s evidence that it raises the chance of deleterious cellular effects, which make cancer more likely. Vaping is still new and science is still studying it, but this piece of research isn’t encouraging for vaping enthusiasts.

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