Patients with lung cancer: Are electronic cigarettes harmful, useful?

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http://www.lungcancerjournal.info/article/S0169-5002(15)30123-9/abstract


Highlights

• •The e-cigarette will never be totally safe: it is not a product for non-smoker.
• •The emissions of e-cigarette contain no tar and <1% nitrosamines of tobacco smoke.
• •Aldehydes in emission are <10% tobacco smoke, but may increase in case of misuse.
• •A total replacement of tobacco by e-cigarette offers a dramatic decrease of risk.
• •e-cigarette has to be considered by practitioner in patients with cancer who continue to smoke.