The impact e-cigarettes have on the 200,00 Australians who use them has long baffled researchers. But a new Queensland study hopes to uncover the effect vaping has on people's lung health and exercise capacity.
Over 200,000 Australians have either taken up the habit or switched from traditional cigarettes, but the effect e-cigarettes have on people's health and lung function still remains a mystery to researchers.Little is known about the health effects of e-cigarettes or the chemicals used in vaping liquidsImported vaping liquids are less regulated than those produced in Australia
"We have had tobacco smoking for the last 100 or so years, so we know the problems it can make, but vaping has only really been around for the last 10 or so years," he said. "We get them to breathe into a tube that measures the size of their lungs and also measures the speed at which the air comes out," he said."During that test the cycling gets harder and harder, and at the same time we can measure how well the lungs are working," he said.
Dr Mills said many people switch to vaping in an effort to stop smoking traditional cigarettes, but that e-cigarettes were yet to be approved by the Therapeutic Goods Administration as a sellable product to help people ditch the addiction. In Australia, it is illegal to sell e-cigarette liquid that contains nicotine, but some products have been found to contain it, despite being labelled "nicotine free".
The group said a recent survey found 42 per cent of ex-smokers who now vape would go back to traditional cigarettes if a ban on e-cigarettes containing nicotine came into place next year.
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