[154] Prevention Education and counselling by physicians of children and adolescents has been found to be effective in decreasing the risk of tobacco use
After the Netherlands increased prices by 24 per cent on cigarettes and 45 per cent on rolling tobacco in 2024, about 7 per cent of smokers quit, according to the analysis from the Dutch public health agency
This is saying that cellular oxidative stress, redox imbalance, and lung inflammation (cell damage and inflation) seem to occur with eCigs and tobacco cigarettes, due to heavy metals and free radicals, in similar ways to tobacco, in tests on mice (we have different ethics for studying humans and it takes longer to get that data)
He began wondering if something useful could be made from them
Vaping is considered to be safer than smoking due to the nature of the aerosol we inhale into our lungs: exhaled e-cigarette aerosol is 99.9% vegetable glycerine and water, compared with Baker and Proctors estimate that exhaled environmental tobacco smoke contributes between 3 and 11% of carbon monoxide, between 15 and 43% particles, and between 1-9% nicotine