SEOUL: A recent new study tells us that if you quit smoking and use vape instead, your risk of lung cancer will not decrease as you might expect, but will remain the same.
According to the study’s lead author, Dr. Yoon Wook Kim, assistant professor of pulmonary and critical care medicine at Seoul National University in South Korea, and his team, this is the first large-scale population-based study to investigate the effects of VAP. An increased risk of lung cancer has been shown even after smoking cessation.
Dr. Kim’s team presented their findings at the annual meeting of the American Thoracic Society in San Diego. Many smokers are turning to vaping because they believe it is safer than cigarettes, the study said. In reality it is not.
The team of researchers studied more than 4.3 million South Koreans who enrolled in the country’s National Health Screening Program in 2012-2014 and 2018.
The researchers found that more than 53,000 people developed lung cancer and 6,351 died from the disease. Among those who had quit smoking for five years or more but were still using vape, the risk of developing lung cancer was higher than those who quit both types of smoking altogether. was
