Dr. Harkirat S. Wilkhoo, a doctor from the United Arab Emirates, recently cited a study published in the medical journal JAMA Network Open titled "Nicotine Addiction and E-Cigarette Use Intensity Among U.S. Adolescents, 2014-2021." The study reported that between 2014 and 2017, less than 1% of smokers reported using an electronic cigarette device within five minutes of waking up, but by 2021, this figure had sharply risen to 10.3%.
Aside from citing the study, Dr. Harkirat S. Wilkhoo stated that most teenagers use e-cigarettes due to peer pressure, a claim that is supported by science. However, he went on to make some inaccurate statements about the product's risk level. Dr. Wilkhoo said, "E-cigarettes are not cool. They may provide a pleasurable sensation, but they pose a great danger because they contain heavy metals and carcinogenic chemicals that are directly absorbed by the lungs' deep tissues.
Is this study reliable?
Meanwhile, in 2020, the lead author of this study, Dr. Stanton Glantz, who had previously been criticized for his anti-vaping bias and flawed research, retired from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) without warning or explanation.
A tweet regarding Gregory Conley's sudden resignation from the American Vaping Association pointed out that the move came six months after his infamous paper linking e-cigarettes to heart attacks was retracted. In a Twitter post, he wrote, "Stan Glantz appears to have retired from UCSF six months after his paper falsely linking e-cigarettes and heart attacks was retracted.
Flawed and biased research.
This study was published in the Journal of the American Heart Association in June 2019. Following a series of warnings from other scholars, the journal pointed out that the study did not clearly establish whether vaping or a heart attack occurred first. When asked to provide additional data to clarify the direction of this relationship, Glantz and his team were unable to do so, leading to the retraction of the study.
The Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at the University of California, San Francisco (of which Glantz recently resigned from) has received a total of $40 million in funding over the past few years for research on the effects of e-cigarettes.
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