E-cigarette use is rising in popularity as more smokers now prefer to vape instead of smoking tobacco. There have been concerns over the use of e-cigarettes as previous studies revealed that excessive exposure to the vapor would damage DNA and cause cancer. Now, a new study emerges to refute the claim.
In 2015, University of California, San Diego researchers, along with VA San Diego Healthcare System, conducted a study on e-cigarettes causing cancer, the results of which stated that vapor from the e-cigarettes can render genes unstable and will lead to cancer. Although vaping is now a preferred option for smokers because it doesn’t contain nicotine, it is the nicotine-free vapor itself that caused the damage, the previous study stated.
For this newer study published in Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis and conducted by researchers at British American Tobacco, it was found that the nicotine-free vapors neither induce damage to cells nor cause cancer. Researchers also stated that e-cigarettes are actually safer compared to tobacco.
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