New research has reported that vaping damages the lungs, just like smoking conventional cigarettes. Scientists have found that it causes cellular and molecular changes that could lead to disease over time.
Smokers are often told battery-powered e-cigs are effective in helping them to quit the habit. But experiments on mice found prolonged inhalation aerosols affected the pulmonary immune system, altering gene and protein levels.
Alarmingly, even low exposure to mango-flavoured brands from JUUL - popular with teenagers and young adults - had significant impacts. Corresponding author Dr Carolyn Baglole, of McGill University, Montreal, said: "The health consequences of vaping are not known.
