Smoking e-cigarettes and traditional cigarettes at the same time is more dangerous

according to a new study from the University of California, San Francisco, e-cigarette use significantly increases a person's risk of chronic lung diseases such as asthma, bronchitis, emphysema, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The study also found that people who smoked both e-cigarettes and traditional cigarettes had a higher risk of chronic lung disease than those who used only one of the two products. By far the most common pattern among adult e-cigarette users.
The findings, published In the American Journal of Preventive Medicine on December 16, were based on public data analysis, which looked at lung disease in more than 32,000 adult smokers in the United States from 2013 to 2016.
although earlier studies have found a link between e-cigarette use and lung disease, researchers are not sure whether e-cigarettes cause lung disease or whether people with lung disease are more likely to use e-cigarettes.
, the participants did not report lung disease, and they used e-cigarettes or smoking from the start. The researchers followed them for three years, and the new longitudinal study provides more evidence than previous studies of a causal relationship between e-cigarette use in adults and lung disease.
"We found that e-cigarette smokers were about a third more likely to develop lung disease. E-cigarettes are harmful in themselves and their effects are not related to traditional tobacco use. Study co-author Stanton Glantz, a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, said.
and it's worth noting that the risk of lung disease multiplied for people who smoke and use e-cigarettes at the same time.
" dual users - the most common mode of use among e-cigarette users - are affected by the joint effects of e-cigarettes and traditional cigarettes, so they are actually worse off than smokers. Glantz said.
important to the findings, as the debate continues over whether e-cigarettes should be promoted as a tool to reduce harm to smokers. While researchers found that the shift from smoking to e-cigarettes reduced the risk of lung disease, less than 1 percent of smokers switched to e-cigarettes although they did. (Source: Tang Erdu, China Science Journal)
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