The industry is trying to get them treated from a regulatory perspective and branding and messaging perspective as if theyre unequivocally safer and cause less harm than cigarettes, but they are much closer to a cigarette than e-cigarettes because of the heating process, said Tim McAfee, the former head of the Office for Smoking and Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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The tobacco type, frequency, recency, and overall health profile all affect the outcome, but the most important factor for non-cigarette tobacco users is carrier selection: many carriers offer non-smoker rate classes for cigar users, smokeless tobacco users, and pipe users who accurately disclose their usage pattern as distinct from cigarette smoking
E-cigarettes, however, still contain nicotine and other toxic substances that damage the lungs and heart
Cross-trait assortative mating is widespread and inflates genetic correlation estimates