United States: There are number of people who both vape and smoke tobacco, actually have a higher risk of lung cancer than those who use either product alone, according to a new study.
The study, led by Marisa Bittoni, an oncology researcher at Ohio State University, provides clear evidence of the increased risk. Bittoni, from the university’s Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute, emphasized the public health concern over the dual use of traditional and e-cigarette products.
Significant Findings on Dual Use of Smoking and Vaping
As reported by HealthDay, her team almost tracked the rates of the both vaping and smoking among nearly 5,000 columbous area people diagnosed with lung cancer and compared them to a group of almost 27,300 people without cancer.
The results: Folks who had both smoked and vaped were eight times more likely to be in the lung cancer group than the group that was cancer-free.
Moreover, people who both vaped and smoked were four times more likely to go on to develop lung cancer compared to people who had only smoked, Bittoni’s group found.
Prior Research on Nicotine and Lung Cancer
The findings were already published recently in the Journal of Oncology Research and Therapy.
“Our findings provide the first evidence that smoking in combination with vaping significantly increases the risk of lung cancer compared to smoking alone,” said study co-author Dr. Randall Harris who is a professor of epidemiology in the university’s College of Public Health.
“Most people know that tobacco smoke contains cancer-causing chemicals but, overall, there is less knowledge about the chemicals that are inhaled through vape vapours,” he added.
According to the study authors, prior research has already linked to the nicotine in e-cigarette vapor to lung cancer I the mice and the amount of the smoke the mice were exposed to was similar to a person who had vaped for about three to six years they noted.