smoking cigarettes cause Health Effects of on Your Body Preventing Chronic Disease: April 2007:

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If you smoke, switching completely to a regulated vape is far less harmful than continuing to smoke

When the Food and Drug Administration unveiled graphic new health warnings for cigarette packs last week, an agency statement said the bold measure would help prevent children from smoking [and] encourage adults who do to quit. But the agencys own research concluded that the impact of the warnings might actually be negligible

Sweet, mint and menthol flavored e-liquids appeared to inflict the most damage, the study found

When they were surveyed about one year later, respiratory symptoms were reported by 10.7% of those who did not use e-cigarettes or tobacco cigarettes, 11.8% of exclusive e-cigarette users, 17.1% of exclusive tobacco smokers, and 19.7% of dual users (those who both vaped e-cigarettes and smoked tobacco cigarettes)