Electronic cigarettes are more harmful than ordinary cigarettes

Researchers have found that smoking e-cigarettes can cause a rare series of immune reactions in organisms that can cause serious lung disease.Electronic Cigarettes, Elf Bar, vape

According to reports, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill say that smoking electronic cigarettes will seriously harm lung health. The school's researchers conducted a comparative analysis of sputum samples taken from 15 e-cigarette smokers, 14 ordinary smokers and 15 non-smokers. As a result, it was found that some indicators of people who smoked electronic cigarettes increased significantly compared with those who smoked traditional cigarettes. For example, in the respiratory tract, the number of proteins associated with neutrophils and neutrophils is increased. Neutrophils are important for combating pathogenic microorganisms, but if they are "out of control," they promote the development of inflammatory diseases of the lungs, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and pulmonary fibrosis.

In addition, scientists have found that, like the typical consequences of ordinary cigarettes, smoking e-cigarettes increase biomarkers of oxidative stress and enhance the activation of lung disease protection mechanisms. In e-cigarette enthusiasts, mucus secretion increases, especially mucin 5AC, which is overproduced and abnormal activity in the lungs, leading to chronic bronchitis, bronchiectasis and asthma.

The report quoted the researchers as saying, “The misconception that e-cigarettes are safer than ordinary cigarettes is the reason why the potential side effects of e-cigarettes have just begun to be studied. Our findings show that e-cigarettes are harmful to health. Not less than ordinary cigarettes."