This morning, New Zealand researchers published a paper stating that vaping increases your risk of cancer.

In a statement, Professor Ian Shaw, the lead author of the paper, said, “We predicted the cancer risk to vapers based on the published levels of … chemicals in ‘vape smoke’ and concluded that vaping presents a cancer risk. However, it is likely that the vaping cancer risk is lower than the cigarette smoking cancer risk.

“Therefore, using vaping for smoking cessation is acceptable because this will lower the overall cancer risk, but vaping for its own sake adds to life’s cancer risks and is therefore unacceptable.”

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