
Electronic cigarettes contain nicotine and can cause lung cancer, but they’re not known to be harmful to people with heart disease, stroke or other conditions.
If you smoke, your risk of getting lung cancer is still unknown, but research shows they may also increase your risk for certain cancers.
The FDA does not have a way to say if you can or can’t smoke e-cigarette vapor, so the best way to know is to get a smoke test.
They don’t know how many people smoke cigarettes or what percentage of them smoke e, but if they do, you should get one, according to the American Lung Association.
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While e-Cigarette makers make electronic cigarettes look like traditional cigarettes, they’re actually different products, like the tobacco products they’re trying to replace.
In general, e-liquid is safer than tobacco because it doesn’t contain the chemicals found in tobacco, such as tar and nicotine.
For example, a cigarette can contain more than 1,000 chemicals, and electronic cigarettes contain only about 20, according a review by the American Heart Association.
For comparison, there are about 1,600,000 cigarettes in the U.S. But because e-vapor contains no tobacco, there’s no need for people to switch to vaping.
E-Cigs are also safer because they don’t contain tar or nicotine, so there’s less risk of cancer from smoking.
That means the risk of dying from lung cancer in an e-liquids-use smoker is lower than the risk from a regular smoker, according the American Cancer Society.
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