Treatment of Tobacco Smoking
JAMA Clinical Reviews
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What Are Some Potential Concerns About the Health Effects of Cigarettes?
E cigarettes are nicotine delivery devices, where the nicotine in a liquid is heated up into an aerasol that is then hale. There's no smoke, there's no combustion, and none of the products of combustion - which causes most of the health harms of smoking -- are part of e cigarettes. Our understanding is that they will be safer than continuing to smoke. So far, we haven't seen any in terms of increasing rates of carti vascular disease, pulmonary disease or cancers.
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