While smoking rates have fallen to record lows, vaping has become increasingly common, with some evidence finding it to be a less harmful alternative to cigarettes. But a new study out of Manchester Metropolitan University is countering that, determining that e-cigs are at least as harmful as regular ones — and in at least one key way, they’re worse. “At the beginning [of the study], I also believed that vaping was more beneficial than smoking,” Dr. Maxime Boidin told the Daily Mirror. “You see a lot more people vaping these...

Regularly using e-cigarettes could put users at risk of dementia, heart disease and organ failure, a bombshell first-of-its-kind study revealed today. Britons are taking up vaping in unprecedented numbers, with roughly one in ten adults now estimated to be hooked on the habit. Yet, while vapes are generally considered safer than cigarettes and a useful tool for quitting smoking, surveys have found around 8 per cent of adult vapers have never even smoked before. Now, researchers from Manchester Metropolitan University, believe the gadgets could pose an even worse health threat...

The dangers of vaping have been revealed in a bombshell study - which makes it more dangerous to the body than cigarettes - with users at risk of dementia, heart disease and organ failure. NHS officials rank vaping less harmful than smoking, but warn it is not without a risk. Now as the Mirror reports, an expert leading the world's first controlled study into vaping's long-term effects, believes the health threat to vapers is even worse. Dr Maxine Boidin, is heading up the research at Manchester Metropolitan University. He said:...