[79] Although several studies have found lower levels of carcinogens in e-cigarette aerosol compared to smoke emitted by traditional cigarettes, the mainstream and second-hand e-cigarette aerosol has been found to contain at least ten chemicals that are on California's Proposition 65 list of chemicals known to cause cancer, birth defects, or other reproductive harm, including acetaldehyde, benzene, cadmium, formaldehyde, isoprene, lead, nickel, nicotine, N -Nitrosonornicotine, and toluene
The industrys ability to undermine public health information and confuse and divide the health community is particularly effective when research is published in peer-reviewed scientific journals
Changing routines and finding alternative activities can help break the association between smoking and specific triggers and restore healthy lungs
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