Cette time, it is neither the risk of explosion of the battery nor the harmfulness of the aromas which are pointed out. Published at the end of August in the journal "Thorax", an American study reveals that mice, subjected to e-cigarette vapors, with nicotine, one hour a day for four months, presented pulmonary lesions similar to that of COPD ( chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), chronic respiratory disease.
THE POTENTIALLY TOXIC E-CIGARETTE?
According to Thierry Chinet, Head of the Department of Pulmonology and Thoracic Oncology at the Ambroise-Paré Hospital of the AP-HP: “ this study is very important. Not only does it show that the electronic cigarette, used by a million and a half French, can " to be potentially toxic But, for the first time, that the " nicotine can have deleterious consequences on the lung ". Until then, doctors believed that only combustion products, such as smoke, caused respiratory problems.
If these first leads need to be confirmed, a second recent American study shows that the e-cigarette is not a trivial product. Three thousand non-smoking Southern California teens who vape regularly cough more than most. These results confirm the concerns of the World Health Organization (WHO) which asks to ban minors. In France, this has already been the case since June 2013.
» IT'S BETTER TO SPRAY THAN SMOKE« 
However, Thierry Chinet, specialist in pneumology, wishes to remain cautious: « Of course, it is better to smoke than to smoke even if there is a lack of data. The studies on the electronic cigarette began six years ago, and it will be necessary to wait another twenty years to be certain.
In the meantime, the goal of doctors is to reduce the number of COPD, chronic lung diseases little known and yet devastating. " We only talk about cancer, but over time, three to four in ten smokers develop COPD, Explain Bruno Housset, head of the department of pneumology of the intercommunal hospital center of Créteil. Even if they stop smoking, their lungs are destroyed. Seventeen thousand Frenchmen die each year, four times more than road accident victims.
Source : Le Parisien
