Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

The Hidden Dangers of Vaping

11 Jul 2025 · 1 min

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Aaron Hartman, MD explains why we shouldn't wait decades for proof that vaping is dangerous. It took 50 years and 7,000 research articles to establish smoking causes lung cancer. Early evidence already suggests vaping may be as harmful as or worse than smoking.

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It took 50 years and 7,000 research articles before the surgeons in general in the United States said smoking caused lung cancer. If we wait for consensus to say, yeah, vaping is probably not the best thing for us, then we're gonna be probably waiting 20, 30 years. And just like with smoking, there's a huge industry that's popped up around it. I think the controversy here is that people initially used vaping as a way to quit smoking, which, actually, I read my journal articles back in 2006, 2007. I actually recommended to patients, hey, maybe consider vaping to quit smoking early on, because I didn't know any better. Now it appears that's potentially worse for people than smoking. How long will it take for us to figure this out?