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✍ People who smoke e-cigarettes face an increased risk of developing serious, chronic lung diseases such asthma, emphysema and bronchitis — particularly since many end up smoking traditional tobacco cigarettes at the same time, according to a new study. Research published Monday in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine included 32,000 adults in the US — none of whom had any signs of lung disease when the study began in 2013. Three years later, investigators found that those who used e-cigarettes were 30 percent more likely to have developed a chronic lung disease than those who did not. “E-cigarette use predicted the development of lung disease over a very short period of time. It only took three years,” said Stanton Glantz, the study’s author, who added that some of the subjects also may have vaped products with THC, marijuana’s psychoactive ingredient, not just nicotine. People who smoked regular cigarettes had a higher risk of developing chronic lung diseases than those wh ...
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