PET imaging shows greater lung inflammation in e-cigarette users than cigarette smokers

Medical Xpress / Soc. of Nuclear Med. and Molecular Imaging / Journal of Nuclear Medicine ^ | Jan. 26, 2023 | Reagan R. Wetherill et al

[philman_36]

Here is the study...Using 18F-NOS PET Imaging to Measure Pulmonary Inflammation in Electronic and Combustible Cigarette Users: A Pilot Study

This article is a preprint and has not been peer-reviewed

You can believe that scat if you want to. I'll pass.

[philman_36]

Good Lord, man, this drek was written June 16, 2022.

[Mark]

bkmk

[philman_36]

NEURACEQ (florbetaben F 18 injection), for intravenous use Initial U.S. Approval: 2014 Neuraceq™ is a radioactive diagnostic agent indicated for Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging of the brain to estimate β-amyloid neuritic plaque density in adult patients with cognitive impairment who are being evaluated for Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and other causes of cognitive decline. It sure is a long ways away from it's original usage.

[Pikachu_Dad]

You will notice that the report claimed NO increase in inflammation between the control group and the smokers !

[Pikachu_Dad]

Wow. FIFTEEN PEOPLE were studied ... LOL.

Only five in each group.

[Pikachu_Dad]

Lol... yep ! Bogus study.

“Although we did not see the expected increase in 18F-NOS uptake in cigarette smokers,”

[SamAdams76]

I also never smoked due in large part to my father smoking in the house and everything was contaminated by the smoke. Ash trays all over the house, burn holes in the furniture, brown stains on the ceilings.

Then when I got in the military (early 1980s), not only the constant cigarette smoke but the chew as well. One of my roommates always had a lid of Skoal and would spit into an empty beer can.

Well one time, we were hanging out in the room one night, listening to Marshall Tucker Band and Joe Walsh, when I went to take a sip of my beer. Only it was his spittoon. I took a full swallow before I realized what I had done.

Even to this day, I gag in my mouth thinking about it.

So no tobacco for me.

[Irenic]

I’m grateful to the inventor of e-cigarettes, if not for them I would still be smoking.

I seldom vape anymore and if I do—it’s without nicotine.

I never had an issue one with it, had/have good lung CT’s.

Of course I never tried to put all manner of weird stuff in my vape liquid and my husband mixed ours.

[mfish13]

Elementary, My Dear Watson.

[logi_cal869]

When ‘vaping’ first came about, I was dubious, but a non-smoker by that time. Thus I was dismissive.

Then my wife switched from cancer sticks to vaping overnight. Many long nights of research followed.

Conclusion: As with everything else, in moderation and as a therapeutic - primarily for breaking a nicotine habit - vaping is safe (assuming the ingredients are PG and without additives. The ‘juices’ ARE unregulated).

The problem is that smoking is as much a physical & emotional addiction as it is a chemical addiction. The same applies to vaping for most users, my wife included who, by the way, happens to be in denial about her respiratory problems (my $$ is on the vaping).

People should only vape to escape the cancer sticks (they work) and then dump the vaping which, by the way, isn’t much less expensive than cancer sticks when all costs are summed together. And who knows the long-term risks of the physical damage to the lungs which - in this post-covid medical environment - is presumably speculative and suspect.

We can only hope there’s adequate funding for further research of an unbiased nature.

[Allegra]

I bought a vape a few years ago to help me quit cigarettes. Turns out I didn’t care for the vape so I ended up quitting cigarettes pretty much cold turkey on a taper-down method. I threw the vape and cartridges away.

[ConservativeMind]

I agree with you and your approach.

[ConservativeMind]

Good for you!

[McGruff]

I've noticed that people who vape tend to exhale these huge clouds of vape. Can't be good for you.

[logi_cal869]

;-)

[GOPJ]

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