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  2. Positions of medical organizations on electronic cigarettes

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    There is no international evidence that vaping products are undermining the long-term decline in cigarette smoking among adults and youth, and may in fact be contributing to it.” [2] The Cancer Society of New Zealand released a position statement which states, "There is growing evidence that e-cigarettes containing nicotine assist adult ...

  3. Health effects of electronic cigarettes - Wikipedia

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    Whether long-term vaping can raise the chance for malignancy in individuals with a susceptibility for tumor growth is unknown. [202] The effects of nicotine on the sympathoadrenal system could stimulate the advancement of cancer in people who have cancer. [203] Nicotine has been shown to induce DNA damage in the Escherichia colipol A+/pol− ...

  4. Standardized uptake value - Wikipedia

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    3-dimensional [18 F]FDG-PET image with 3D ROI generated by a threshold based algorithm.The blue dot in the MIP image bottom right marks the maximum SUV within the ROI.. The standardized uptake value (SUV) is a nuclear medicine term, used in positron emission tomography (PET) as well as in modern calibrated single photon emission tomography (SPECT) imaging for a semiquantitative analysis. [1]

  5. Vaping could be key to help people quit smoking, study says - AOL

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    Since vaping hit the market roughly 20 years ago, research has been mixed on whether the electronic devices, which are especially popular among teens and 20-somethings, can be a helpful tool in ...

  6. Experts warn about increase in young adults vaping thinking ...

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    Vaping has changed how people see smoking, in part due to tobacco companies marketing to young adults, but vaping isn't 'healthier' than cigarettes. Experts warn about increase in young adults ...

  7. Electronic cigarette - Wikipedia

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    Critics of vaping bans state that vaping is a much safer alternative to smoking tobacco products and that vaping bans incentivize people to return to smoking cigarettes. [329] For example, critics cite the British Journal of Family Medicine in August 2015 which stated, "E-cigarettes are 95% safer than traditional smoking."

  8. Vaping and smoking in playgrounds and outside schools may be ...

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    Vaping and smoking in playgrounds and outside schools could be banned, the Health Secretary has said, although the Government has rowed back on making it illegal to smoke in pub beer gardens.

  9. List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes - Wikipedia

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    Second, medical roots generally go together according to language, i.e., Greek prefixes occur with Greek suffixes and Latin prefixes with Latin suffixes. Although international scientific vocabulary is not stringent about segregating combining forms of different languages, it is advisable when coining new words not to mix different lingual roots.