Meo S A, Al Asiri S A
Department of Physiology, 1Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci. 2014;18(21):3315-9.
Electronic cigarette smoking is gaining dramatic popularity and is steadily spreading among the adolescents, high income, urban population around the world. The aim of this study is to highlight the hazards of e-cigarette smoking on human health.
In this study, we identified 38 published studies through a systematic database searches including ISI-web of science and pub-med. We searched the related literature by using the key words including Electronic cigarette, E-cigarette, E-vapers, incidence, hazards. Studies in which electronic cigarette smoking hazards was investigated were included in the study. No limitations on publication status, study design of publication were implemented. Finally we included 28 publications and remaining 10 were excluded.
E-smoking can cause, nausea, vomiting, headache, dizziness, choking, burn injuries, upper respiratory tract irritation, dry cough, dryness of the eyes and mucous membrane, release of cytokines and pro-inflammatory mediators, allergic airway inflammation, decreased exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) synthesis in the lungs, change in bronchial gene expression and risk of lung cancer.
Electronic cigarettes are swiftly promoted as an alternative to conventional cigarette smoking, although its use is highly controversial. Electronic cigarettes are not a smoking cessation product. Non-scientific claims about e-cigarettes are creating confusion in public perception about e-cigarette and people believe that e-cigarettes are safe and less addictive, but its use is unsafe and hazardous to human health. E-cigarette smoking should be regulated in the same way as traditional cigarettes and must be prohibited to children and adolescents.
吸电子烟正变得极为流行，并在全球青少年、高收入城市人群中稳步蔓延。本研究的目的是强调吸电子烟对人类健康的危害。
在本研究中，我们通过系统的数据库检索，包括科学网（ISI-web of science）和PubMed，确定了38项已发表的研究。我们使用包括电子烟、电子香烟、电子烟使用者、发病率、危害等关键词来检索相关文献。纳入研究中对吸电子烟危害进行调查的研究。对发表状态、出版物的研究设计没有限制。最后我们纳入了28篇出版物，排除了其余10篇。
吸电子烟可导致恶心、呕吐、头痛、头晕、窒息、烧伤、上呼吸道刺激、干咳、眼睛和黏膜干燥、细胞因子和促炎介质释放、过敏性气道炎症、肺内呼出一氧化氮（FeNO）合成减少、支气管基因表达改变以及肺癌风险。
电子烟作为传统吸烟的替代品被迅速推广，尽管其使用极具争议。电子烟不是戒烟产品。关于电子烟的非科学说法正在公众对电子烟的认知中造成混乱，人们认为电子烟是安全的且成瘾性较低，但其实它的使用对人类健康不安全且有害。吸电子烟应与传统香烟一样受到监管，并且必须禁止儿童和青少年使用。
