A new study finding vaping can help smokers quit even if they don’t intend to stop smoking has received a lot of press attention. This includes coverage from the National Institutes of Health’s Research Blog. The below press release was issued by the Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, which is where the research was conducted. […]
Flawed Data and Ethical Failure: Pediatrics Journal Suppresses Criticism
After posting a faulty study with misleading findings, Pediatrics editors hide the truth. When Drs. Benjamin Chaffee, Stanton Glantz, and Shannon Lea Watkins from the University of California, San Francisco published their findings on progression from vaping to smoking among youth who had previously tried cigarettes, the results seemed clear: “Among adolescent cigarette experimenters, […]
Research shows that vaping, unlike smoking, does not affect gut bacteria diversity
New study finds that the gut microbiota composition of vapers is essentially identical to non-smokers, but the story is different for smokers. Led by Christopher J. Stewart of the Alkek Center for Metagenomics and Microbiome Research and Baylor College of Medicine, a group of researches has published its findings in the journal PeerJ of the […]
New research casts doubt on “gateway effect” of vaping to youth smoking
Are vaping products a gateway to smoking for teens and young adults? Though this has long been a key concern for vaping opponents, the evidence does not provide a clear-cut answer. Researchers Lynn Kozlowski from the University at Buffalo and Kenneth Warner from the University of Michigan conducted a review of data from several leading […]
University of Michigan study: Potential of vaping to benefit public health exceeds its risks
Credit: University of Michigan ANN ARBOR—The benefits of vaping to quit smoking far outweigh the health risks of youths moving from electronic to traditional cigarettes, a new study says. An analysis by University of Michigan researchers Kenneth Warner and David Mendez from the School of Public Health found that in the most likely of several […]
