Researchers Find Heart Disease Risks With Vaping

September brings the taste of fall, back to school and some new regulations for those who use e-cigarettes in B.C, just as researchers find heart disease risks with vaping.

As of September 1st, e-cigs will be treated the same as cigarettes, so the same rules apply.

That means that vaping will no longer be allowed at work, or in beaches and parks. In addition, using e-cigarettes in a car with someone under 16 years old in the vehicle is also regulated. Using a vape will be restricted within six metres from a building opening. Minors can no longer buy e-cigarettes and retailers may not display them in places kids can see.

Recent research points to the fact that vaping can be as harmful as smoking when it comes to heart health. At a cardiology conference in Italy, doctors told fellow researchers that vaping had the same damaging effects to the aorta as smoking.

“There could be long term heart dangers. They are far more dangerous than people realize,” says Vlachopoulos. “I wouldn’t recommend them now as a method to give up smoking. I think the U.K. has rushed into adopting this method.”

As e-cigarettes are a new invention, studies were limited when the product arrived on the market so the safety of using them is still uncomfirmed.

More info on e-cigarette safety:

Between 2014 and 2015, CDC studies found e-cigarette use among high school students increased by 19 percent

Health risks of e-cigarettes emerge

Headlines about e-cigarettes don’t mean they’re ‘not safer than tobacco’

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