Former Smokers Are Likely To Relapse After Quitting Vaping, New Study Suggests

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The findings of a new study suggest that former smokers who have taken up vaping as an alternative to conventional cigarettes are likely to relapse and return to smoking upon quitting vaping — not good news for vapers who have taken up vaping to get away from their smoking habits. The results of the study, …

Does Vaping Help Quit Smoking? Georgia State University Study Says No

A new study conducted by a group of tobacco researchers at Georgia State University’s School of Public Health have found “no evidence” that electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) such as e-cigarettes are effective smoking cessations. They did, however, find users of e-cigs and similar products to be more likely to attempt to quit smoking. Still, …

Study Finds Vape Juice Flavors Play An Important Role In Transitioning From Smoker To Vaper

A new study conducted by the Center for Substance Use Research (CSUR) and funded by Fontem Ventures, the vape company behind such brands as Blu e-cigarettes, has found vape juice flavors to play an important role in not only attracting smokers to vaping, but also in retaining them as vapers. The study’s lead researchers, CSUR …

E-Liquid Still Poses Danger To Children, Experts Say

While the annual rate at which children have been exposed to nicotine actually dropped by 19.8% from 2015 to 2016, experts are concerned that liquid nicotine (e-liquid) continues to pose a “serious risk” for adolescents. According to the findings of a new study published in the journal Pediatrics, which examined the National Poison Data System’s …

Greece Vaping Study Finds E-Cig Use Largely Confined To Smokers

While there are clearly concerns over e-cigarettes getting the next generation of adults hooked on nicotine, the findings of a new study conducted by researchers in Greece may put some of these concerns to rest. The study, which was published in the Harm Reduction Journal, found e-cigarette use in Greece to be “largely confined” to …

High School Senior Wins $175,000 Prize For Vaping Study

A senior at Garnet Valley High School in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania has won second prize in the Regeneron Science Talent Search, netting her $175,000 in winnings for her study on the effects of vaping. The student, 18-year-old Natalia Orlovsky, was quoted by The Inquirer as having said that she was “incredibly surprised” by her second …

Cancer Research UK Addresses Media’s Misrepresentation Of Vape Study’s Findings

Cancer Research UK, a cancer research and awareness charity formed in 2002 by the merger of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund and The Cancer Research Campaign, has issued a response to what they call “the misinterpretation by the media” of an electronic cigarette study funded by the charity that examined the possibility that vaping e-cigs …

UCSF Vaping Study Correlates E-Cigs With Heart Attacks, But Experts Disagree On What It Means

A new study led by UCSF Professor Stan Glantz shows that there could be a link between e-cig use and heart attack risk, however, not all experts agree on what the study’s findings imply. While Glantz was quoted by ABC7 as having said that he and his colleagues found daily e-cigarette users to exhibit “an almost doubling …

NYU Vape Study Finds Oklahoma To Be The Most Popular State For E-Cigs

Vaporizing, or vaping as it’s known in short, is increasing in popularity across the United States, but there’s one state in particular where its popularity exceeds all others and that state is apparently Oklahoma. According to new research out of the New York University School of Medicine, it’s Oklahoma’s tobacco laws and regulations, or rather, …

Glo Vape’s Impact On Airway Tissue Minimal Compared To Smoke, New Research Shows

A new study conducted by scientists at British American Tobacco has found vapor’s impact on human airway tissue to be minimal in comparison to the smoke produced a conventional cigarette — this in regards to the vapor produced by BAT’s Glo e-cigarette. Glo is a heat-not-burn (HNB) device that was first launched in Japan back …