It is said that e-cigarettes can help people quit smoking and are less harmful than traditional cigarettes. But things are not that simple. About the benefits and risks of vaping.
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Berit Uhlmann
There are points of view from which the old dispute about the benefits of the e-cigarette appears to have a clear answer. For example, there are the patients that the Berlin pneumologist Thomas Hering sees in his practice. The lung disease COPD takes their breath away, they are about to be admitted to the intensive care unit; her life is in acute danger. “For them, anything is better than continuing to smoke,” said Hering recently at a conference on e-cigarettes organized by the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR). In case of doubt, vaping is an alternative. After all, there was at least one consensus at this conference: the steam devices are less harmful than the classic cigarette.