Yasmina Kattou // Credit photo: Joao Luiz Bulcao / Hans Lucas / Hans Lucas via AFP
06h40, 08 November 2024
Information for the three million vapers: the red fruit flavor is dangerous! This is what a very serious study published in the prestigious scientific journal “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences” reveals. Researchers have noticed that the red fruit aroma has direct consequences on the lungs.
The red fruit flavor of puffs and electronic cigarettes is dangerous for your health. To arrive at this observation, the researchers exposed mice to the smoke of electronic cigarettes flavored with red fruits. Upon contact with the steam, the immune cells in the lungs of the trimmers no longer function. However, their role is to relieve the lungs of toxic particles.
“A risk of getting infections and suffering from a health perspective”
“This seems to play on the macrophages and the macrophages are the cells which, at the bronchial level, allow us to protect ourselves in practice from infections and therefore it disrupts the functioning of these macrophages and therefore it puts a risk of infections and suffer from it in terms of health”, explains Professor Daniel Thomas, cardiologist and vice-president of the Alliance against tobacco.
A previous study showed that mint flavoring has the same effect. On the other hand, the cardiologist wants to reassure consumers. “Vaping is much less dangerous than remaining a smoker. And so, if you are a vaper, do not be alarmed by that, and above all, do not return to tobacco,” he explains. Inhaling electronic cigarette liquids is not harmless for your health, the doctor advises stopping vaping as soon as you can do without it.
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