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Some Say Vaping Is the Healthy Alternative to Smoking, But There Are Risks to Vaping as Well

This alternative to smoking still poses significant health risks.

Some Say Vaping Is the Healthy Alternative to Smoking, But There Are Risks to Vaping as Well
MIAMI, FL - APRIL 24: Julia Boyle enjoys an electronic cigarette as she waits for customers at the Vapor Shark store on April 24, 2014 in Miami, Florida. Brandon Leidel, CEO, Director of Operations Vapor Shark, said he welcomes the annoucement by the Food and Drug Administration that they are proposing the first federal regulations on electronic cigarettes, which would ban sales of the popular devices to anyone under 18 and require makers to gain FDA approval for their products. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Cigarettes can be one of the most difficult addictions to quit, asaddictive as heroin. So the rise of vaping—inhaling vaporized nicotine through electronic “e-cigarettes”—has been touted as the perfect solution to help smokers quit, or to offer a less toxic alternative to smoking.  

However, recent research has begun to look more closely at these allegedly reduced risks of vaping to health and finding them not as benign as they had initially thought.

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