This is not a pipe - But how harmful is electronic cigarette smoke

Abstract

This issue of the Biomedical Journal tells us about the risks of electronic cigarette smoking, variations of SARS-CoV-2 and ACE2, and how COVID-19 affects the gastrointestinal system. Moreover, we learn that cancer immunotherapy seems to work well in elderly patients, how thyroid hormones regulate noncoding RNAs in a liver tumour context, and that G6PD is a double-edged sword of redox signalling. We also discover that Perilla leaf extract could inhibit SARS-CoV-2, that artificial neural networks can diagnose COVID-19 patients and predict vaccine epitopes on the Epstein-Barr Virus, and that men and women have differential inflammatory responses to physical effort. Finally, the surgical strategies for drug-resistant epilepsy, computer-supervised double-jaw surgery, dental pulp stem cell motility, and the restitution of the brain blood supply after atherosclerotic stroke are discussed.

Keywords: Cancer immunotherapy; Electronic cigarettes; Epstein–Barr virus vaccine; G6PD; SARS-CoV-2 mutations.

Fig. 1

Direct and indirect impacts on health by smoking. Examples of the detrimental effects of conventional and electric cigarette smoke on oral and systemic health, and how second or third hand smoke can exert damaging effects. Figure kindly provided by Almeida-da-Silva et al. [13]. See main article for details.