{"id":16458,"date":"2024-03-27T09:27:24","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T09:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/researchers-and-public-health-groups-slam-misleading-coverage-of-vape-cancer-link-study\/"},"modified":"2025-01-07T12:14:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T12:14:01","slug":"researchers-and-public-health-groups-slam-misleading-coverage-of-vape-cancer-link-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/es\/post\/researchers-and-public-health-groups-slam-misleading-coverage-of-vape-cancer-link-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers and public health groups slam misleading coverage of vape cancer link study"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"clear-before-content-2\" style=\"margin-top: 20px;margin-bottom: 20px;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\" id=\"clear-3324819276\"><img src=\"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/caafc5c68900198b80aee12c11b50184.avif\" alt=\"\"   style=\"display: inline-block;\" \/><\/div><div class=\"post-cat\">news<\/div>\n<p id=\"\"><strong id=\"\">Academics and public health campaigners have slammed coverage of a recent study linking vaping to DNA damage similar to that which causes cancer in smokers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"\">Headlines linking vaping to cancer in outlets like Sky News and the Guardian were quickly <a href=\"https:\/\/news.cancerresearchuk.org\/2024\/03\/20\/can-vaping-cause-changes-in-our-cells\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">debunked by Cancer Research UK<\/a>, who were quick to point out that the study does not show that vaping causes cancer.<\/p>\n<p id=\"\">\u201cIf you used to smoke and are vaping to help you to stay off tobacco, the most important thing is not to go back to smoking,\u201d Cancer Research asserts, \u201cso, if you\u2019re thinking of stopping vaping, make sure you only do so if you think you won\u2019t start smoking again\u201d.<\/p>\n<p id=\"\">\u201cBecause vaping isn\u2019t risk-free, it\u2019s important that children and people who have never smoked don\u2019t start to vape. By contrast, however, decades of research have proven the harmful effects of smoking, which kills one person every five minutes in the UK. Research so far has found that e-cigarettes are far less harmful than smoking and can help people to stop\u201d.<\/p>\n<p id=\"\">Other cancer experts also weighed in, providing more context to the misleading coverage.<\/p>\n<p id=\"\">\u201cThe journal <em id=\"\">Cancer Research<\/em> is a really high-quality journal, but epidemiologically this study does not lead to the conclusions the authors claim, with a substantial weakness for their smoking\/vaping analysis,\u201d said Professor Peter Shields, Emeritus Professor of Medical Oncology at the Ohio State University,&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote id=\"\"><p>\u201cThe authors report novel data but there are substantial limitations that are not mentioned in the manuscript\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p id=\"\">\u201cThe data are not sufficient to comment on long-term harms associated with e-cigarette use, or any association such changes may have with the risk of developing cancer,\u201d added Dr Mangesh Thorat, Honorary Reader at Queen Mary University of London,&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p id=\"\">\u200d<\/p>\n<div class=\"clear-after-content-2\" style=\"margin-top: 20px;margin-bottom: 20px;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\" id=\"clear-124216001\"><img src=\"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/caafc5c68900198b80aee12c11b50184.avif\" alt=\"\"   style=\"display: inline-block;\" \/><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Academics and public health campaigners have slammed coverage of a recent study linking vaping to DNA damage similar to that which causes cancer in smokers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":990003,"featured_media":14462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[],"slider":[],"class_list":["post-16458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/990003"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16458"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19924,"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16458\/revisions\/19924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16458"},{"taxonomy":"slider","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/slider?post=16458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}