Research shows vaping link to COVID-19; long-term effects of infection in e-cigarette smokers still unknown
4 years, 6 months ago

Research shows vaping link to COVID-19; long-term effects of infection in e-cigarette smokers still unknown

Firstpost  

Experts have warned that the virus in all likelihood capitalizes on the scarred lungs of smokers and vapers. “I have no doubt in saying that smoking and vaping could put people at increased risk of poor outcomes from COVID-19,” said Dr. Stephanie Lovinsky-Desir, a pediatric pulmonologist at Columbia University. “I hate to say it, but if I got the virus, I would still be vaping — I wouldn’t even think it was related,” he said. It was a really bad situation.” Nearly a year later, Moein, a towering athlete who played competitive sports in high school, said he was now once again “very healthy.” But Dr. Laura Crotty Alexander, a pulmonologist and vaping expert at University of California San Diego and one of Moein’s doctors, said experts were still teasing apart the potential long-term effects of vaping, even brushes briefer than his. “And if you’re smoking or vaping,” she said, “you’re not wearing a mask.” Still unclear are the long-term consequences of COVID’s effects on those who smoked or vaped.

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Vaping and young lungs: the alarming risk of e-cigarettes to teenagers
1 month ago

Vaping and young lungs: the alarming risk of e-cigarettes to teenagers

The Hindu  

Most of us don’t think about our lung health until we start having trouble breathing. The connection between vaping and lung cancer A recent study found that people who both smoke and vape are four times more likely to develop lung cancer as compared to those who only smoke. The aerosol inhaled from e-cigarettes contains formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, and acrolein—all known …

Vaping may increase risk of lung cancer
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Vaping may increase risk of lung cancer

The Hindu  

Published : May 23, 2024 22:52 IST - 3 MINS READ People who quit smoking and then took up vaping were more likely to develop lung cancer than those who did not vape, according to the study conducted in South Korea. “This is the first large population-based study to demonstrate the increased risk of lung cancer in e-cigarette users after …

Fears vaping could cause CANCER: Shock study reveals e-cigs damage DNA just like smoking as top experts warn £5 gadgets loved by teens are 'not as harmless as originally thought'
1 year ago

Fears vaping could cause CANCER: Shock study reveals e-cigs damage DNA just like smoking as top experts warn £5 gadgets loved by teens are 'not as harmless as originally thought'

Daily Mail  

British and Austrian experts analysed cells taken from both smokers and vapers Vaping can trigger cell changes which may go onto cause cancer, a shock study suggests. Published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development — a forum of 37 countries with market-based economies founded in 1961 — it also found just four countries rank higher than the UK …

Vaping may increase susceptibility to Covid infection: Study
1 year ago

Vaping may increase susceptibility to Covid infection: Study

New Indian Express  

NEW DELHI: Certain chemicals found in e-cigarettes may make vapers more susceptible to COVID-19 infection, according to a study. The study, published in the American Journal of Physiology, found propylene glycol/vegetable glycerin alone or along with nicotine enhanced COVID-19 infection through different mechanisms. The researchers from the University of California, Riverside in the US, also found that the addition of …

How dangerous IS vaping compared with smoking? New review analyzes the dangers of both.... and finds former is linked to EIGHT lung diseases
1 year, 1 month ago

How dangerous IS vaping compared with smoking? New review analyzes the dangers of both.... and finds former is linked to EIGHT lung diseases

Daily Mail  

A review found that vaping is less harmful than smoking traditional cigarettes Vaping is a much safer alternative to cigarettes but will raise your risk of eight lung diseases, according to a major review. However, smoking has long been associated with severe health consequences like lung cancer and heart disease Researchers suggested that 17 million Americans vape regularly They found …

Teenage vapers suffer harsh respiratory problems after just 30 DAYS of using e-cigarettes, Government-backed study suggests
1 year, 7 months ago

Teenage vapers suffer harsh respiratory problems after just 30 DAYS of using e-cigarettes, Government-backed study suggests

Daily Mail  

Many teens suffer harsh respiratory symptoms like bronchitis and shortness of breath after just a month of vaping, a study suggests. Past 30-day vape users had an 81 percent higher risk of wheezing, a 78 percent higher risk of feeling short of breath and were 50 percent more likely to have bronchitis symptoms compared to teens who had never used …

Vaping may ‘wake up’ cancer cells and trigger wave of disease in a decade
2 years, 6 months ago

Vaping may ‘wake up’ cancer cells and trigger wave of disease in a decade

The Independent  

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World No Tobacco Day 2022: Is There Any Relation Between Smoking and COVID-19?
2 years, 9 months ago

World No Tobacco Day 2022: Is There Any Relation Between Smoking and COVID-19?

News 18  

WORLD NO TOBACCO DAY 2022: Tobacco consumption is a leading cause of cancer around the world and according to the World Health Organization, tobacco consumption kills 8 million people around the world each year. So, to raise awareness about the harmful effects of tobacco consumption Anti-Tobacco Day / World No Tobacco Day is observed on May 31 every year around …

Vaping causes harm and addiction in 'new generation' of users, major report warns
2 years, 11 months ago

Vaping causes harm and addiction in 'new generation' of users, major report warns

ABC  

The growing use of e-cigarettes, or vaping, in Australia poses a "serious public health risk" and threatens to introduce a new generation to smoking. "We reviewed the global evidence in order to support informed choices on vaping for Australia," said review lead author Emily Banks from the Australian National University's National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health. Professor Banks said …

Vaping increases frequency of Covid symptoms, claims study
3 years, 2 months ago

Vaping increases frequency of Covid symptoms, claims study

India TV News  

People who use electronic cigarettes and test positive for Covid-19 have a higher frequency of experiencing Covid symptoms, compared to people who don't vape, according to new research from Mayo Clinic. "The study was designed to compare the frequency of common Covid-19 symptoms, such as loss of taste or smell, headache, muscle aches and chest tightness in Covid patients who …

Scientists decode how smoking worsens Covid-19 infection
4 years, 4 months ago

Scientists decode how smoking worsens Covid-19 infection

India Today  

Scientists have decoded how smoking cigarettes facilitates more severe lung infection by the novel coronavirus, an advance that may lead to new therapeutic strategies to help reduce smokers' chances of developing severe Covid-19. Since these stem cells were taken from the lungs of healthy, non-smoking tissue donors, the researchers replicated the effects of smoking by exposing the airway cultures to …

Vaping Linked to Increased Covid-19 Risk in Young People: Study
4 years, 7 months ago

Vaping Linked to Increased Covid-19 Risk in Young People: Study

News 18  

Using e-cigarettes is associated with a substantially increased risk of COVID-19 among teenagers and young adults, according to a study led by an Indian-origin researcher. "Young people may believe their age protects them from contracting the virus or that they will not experience symptoms of COVID-19, but the data show this isn't true among those who vape," said the study's …

Vaping makes young people up to seven times more likely to get coronavirus, study finds
4 years, 7 months ago

Vaping makes young people up to seven times more likely to get coronavirus, study finds

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Teens and young adults need to know that if you use e-cigarettes, you are likely …

Covid-19 update: Smokers more vulnerable to coronavirus transmission, says Health ministry
4 years, 7 months ago

Covid-19 update: Smokers more vulnerable to coronavirus transmission, says Health ministry

Hindustan Times  

Smokers are likely to be more vulnerable to Covid-19 as smoking increases possibility of transmission of virus from hand to mouth, the Union Health Ministry has said, warning that use of tobacco products can increase severity of respiratory infections and make people susceptible to coronavirus. Tobacco use is a major risk factor for the four main Non-communicable Diseases — cardiovascular …

Smokers More Vulnerable to Covid-19, Tobacco Increases Severity of Respiratory Infections: Govt
4 years, 7 months ago

Smokers More Vulnerable to Covid-19, Tobacco Increases Severity of Respiratory Infections: Govt

News 18  

Smokers are likely to be more vulnerable to COVID-19 as smoking increases possibility of transmission of virus from hand to mouth, the Union Health Ministry has said, warning that use of tobacco products can increase severity of respiratory infections and make people susceptible to coronavirus. In its document 'COVID-19 Pandemic and Tobacco Use in India', the ministry said experts have …

Tobacco use accelerates transmission of COVID-19: Health ministry
4 years, 7 months ago

Tobacco use accelerates transmission of COVID-19: Health ministry

India TV News  

Smokers are likely to be more vulnerable to COVID-19 as smoking increases possibility of transmission of virus from hand to mouth, the Union Health Ministry has said, warning that use of tobacco products can increase severity of respiratory infections and make people susceptible to coronavirus. In its document 'COVID-19 Pandemic and Tobacco Use in India', the ministry said experts have …

World No Tobacco Day 2020: How does COVID-19 affect smokers?
4 years, 9 months ago

World No Tobacco Day 2020: How does COVID-19 affect smokers?

Firstpost  

The World Health Organization has stated that smokers could be more vulnerable to COVID-19 as well as to severe symptoms if they contract the infection. This year, like every other, doctors urge tobacco smokers to quit this harmful habit - but the emphasis now is even higher given that it could cause severe symptoms of COVID-19 in some people. Smoking …

Studies that said smokers were at lower risk for coronavirus were likely wrong. Here's why
4 years, 10 months ago

Studies that said smokers were at lower risk for coronavirus were likely wrong. Here's why

Salon  

A new study explains how the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 is able to more easily target smokers due to a specific way in which the addictive habit changes their lungs. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories Fellow Jason Sheltzer and Google engineer Joan Smith analyzed previous data findings for their article published earlier this week in the scientific journal "Development Cell." …

Here's how that rumor that smokers can't get COVID-19 got started
4 years, 10 months ago

Here's how that rumor that smokers can't get COVID-19 got started

Salon  

Old cigarette ads often made outrageous claims about cigarettes, including, infamously, that they could cure asthma. They're saying that nicotine prevents it," Dr. William Haseltine, the founder and former CEO of Human Genome Sciences, and currently the chair and president of the global health think tank Access Health International, told Salon regarding an April study in "Comptes rendus biologies" led …

Coronavirus: People warned not to smoke after French researchers suggest it could protect against infection
4 years, 10 months ago

Coronavirus: People warned not to smoke after French researchers suggest it could protect against infection

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Researchers in France have put forward the idea that …

Coronavirus and smoking: How do cigarettes, pot and vaping affect infections and outcomes?
4 years, 10 months ago

Coronavirus and smoking: How do cigarettes, pot and vaping affect infections and outcomes?

LA Times  

Smoking is associated with more severe outcomes for coronavirus patients, a recent study of studies has found. “It’s now pretty clear that there is data to show that if you are a smoker, you’re more likely to have adverse outcomes from COVID-19, need mechanical ventilation and to die than if you’re not a smoker,” said Richard Castriotta, a doctor specializing …

Doctor’s Note: Why are smokers more vulnerable to coronavirus?
4 years, 11 months ago

Doctor’s Note: Why are smokers more vulnerable to coronavirus?

Al Jazeera  

Smoking is one of the leading causes of death in the world, killing more than eight million people a year, according to the World Health Organization. In the United Kingdom, the health secretary, Matt Hancock, has said: “It is abundantly clear from the research into previous coronaviruses that smoking makes the impact of a coronavirus worse.” We do know that …

The Scary Relationship Between Vaping And Coronavirus
4 years, 11 months ago

The Scary Relationship Between Vaping And Coronavirus

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING If there was ever a time to quit vaping, it’s now. Because vaping suppresses the lungs’ immune response, it increases the severity and duration of other respiratory infections like bronchitis, influenza and pneumonia, according to Robert Jackler, chair of the department of otolaryngology at Stanford Medicine. Though we’re still learning how vaping may affect one’s risk for …

Does smoking cigarettes, tobacco increase risk of getting infected with coronavirus? WHO says yes
4 years, 11 months ago

Does smoking cigarettes, tobacco increase risk of getting infected with coronavirus? WHO says yes

India TV News  

With the novel coronavirus increasing risk in countries day by day, people are getting conscious about what they should eat and which things should be avoided. Now a new report presented by the World Health Organization states that people who possess tobacco and smoke cigarettes are at a higher risk of getting infected by a coronavirus. Smokers may also already …

Coronavirus: Does smoking put you at greater or less risk?
4 years, 11 months ago

Coronavirus: Does smoking put you at greater or less risk?

Daily Mail  

What is the coronavirus? A study by the Wuhan Institute of Virology, published in February 2020 in the scientific journal Nature, found that the genetic make-up virus samples found in patients in China is 96 per cent identical to a coronavirus they found in bats. Here we're talking about a virus where we don't understand fully the severity spectrum but …

Vaping linked with long-term risk of respiratory disease in new study
5 years, 3 months ago

Vaping linked with long-term risk of respiratory disease in new study

CNN  

CNN — Vaping or using e-cigarettes for a long period of time was associated with an increased risk of respiratory diseases – including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or COPD, chronic bronchitis and asthma – in a new study. “I was a little surprised that we could find evidence on incident lung disease in the longitudinal study, because three years is …

Dozens of deaths linked to vaping could be just 'the tip of the iceberg'
5 years, 4 months ago

Dozens of deaths linked to vaping could be just 'the tip of the iceberg'

Daily Mail  

Dozens of deaths linked to vaping could just be 'the tip of the iceberg,' a damning report has warned. A CT scan of a 24-year-old man with a history of e-cigarette use shows alarming abnormalities in his lungs The man had been suffering shortness of breath, a cough, chest pain and fever for a week because of a build-up of …

The recent vaping deaths are bad. The long term toll will be even worse
5 years, 4 months ago

The recent vaping deaths are bad. The long term toll will be even worse

LA Times  

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has linked vaping to 1,479 cases of a mysterious lung disease over the last six months. Sickened vapers 1,479 Vaping Deaths 33 Sickened vapers 1,479 Vaping Deaths 33 Sickened vapers 1,479 Vaping Deaths 33 Sickened vapers 1,479 Vaping Deaths 33 The outbreak has triggered anxiety among parents and calls for government action. Only …

The Vaping Illness Outbreak: What We Know So Far
5 years, 6 months ago

The Vaping Illness Outbreak: What We Know So Far

NPR  

The Vaping Illness Outbreak: What We Know So Far Enlarge this image toggle caption Picture Alliance/Getty Images Picture Alliance/Getty Images Updated on Sept. 27 at 7:06 p.m. "CDC recommends people consider refraining from using e-cigarette, or vaping, products, particularly those containing THC," said Dr. Anne Schuchat, the CDC's principal deputy director. There is still no definitive link to any brand …

Serious lung illnesses linked to vaping products, says CDC
5 years, 6 months ago

Serious lung illnesses linked to vaping products, says CDC

Al Jazeera  

Officials say people should avoid using e-cigarettes and THC products while they investigate the cause of lung problems. Sudden, serious lung illnesses that have struck people who used vaping devices have been tied in many cases to products that contain THC, the main active ingredient in marijuana, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. Health authorities have identified …

Mystery lung illness linked to vaping reported in nearly 100 people
5 years, 7 months ago

Mystery lung illness linked to vaping reported in nearly 100 people

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy US health officials are investigating around 100 cases of mysterious lung …

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