New Scientist[美国]新科学家杂志2023.12.09期下载PDF电子版网盘订阅

本期封面：电子烟对您的健康有多有害？我们终于得到答案！随着越来越多的人开始吸电子烟，人们越来越担心电子烟的长期影响，我们现在有足够的数据来了解电子烟对健康的影响，以及它与吸烟的比较。
正如一个老笑话所说，当我读到吸烟的危害时，我放弃了阅读。如果您是一名电子烟爱好者，您可能会觉得现在想停止阅读。不要：你需要知道这一点。我是一名电子烟爱好者。和其他许多人一样，我曾经吸烟，但
出于健康原因改用电子烟。我打算彻底戒掉，但还没有成功。我确信吸电子烟比吸烟对我来说更好，但我也确信它比不吸电子烟更糟糕。我早上咳嗽，感觉对尼古丁非常上瘾。我什至不知道我吸入的是什么。我担心戒烟会很困难，我会对自己的身体造成长期损害，而且通过电子烟，我很容易重新回到香烟的状态。我也对那些刚从学校出来就立即将自己笼罩在芬芳的云彩中的青少年抱有同样的担忧。随着电子烟在整个西方世界的增加，这些担忧经常重复出现。上个月在英国举行的国王演讲的一部分重点讨论了旨在通过打击青少年吸电子烟来创造无烟一代的新立法。随着越来越多的儿童承认吸电子烟的习惯，在世界范围内，有人呼吁对电子烟的健康影响进行更严格的监管和更多的调查。但直到最近，对于对健康影响的担忧是否有根据还没有太多的说法。现在，电子烟已经存在了足够长的时间，答案终于开始从迷雾中浮现出来……
AS THE old joke goes, when I read about the dangers of smoking, I gave up reading. If you are a vaper, you might feel like you want to stop reading now. Don’t: you need to know this.I am a vaper. Like many others, I used to smoke and switched to vaping for health reasons. I plan to quit completely, but I haven’t managed it yet. I am sure vaping is better for me than smoking, but I am also sure it is worse than not vaping. I cough in the morning and feel massively addicted to the nicotine. I don’t even really know what I am inhaling. I worry that it will be hard to quit, that I am causing long-term damage to my body and that by vaping, I am susceptible to slipping back down the slope to cigarettes. I also have the same worries for the teenagers I see coming out of school and immediately enveloping themselves in sweet-smelling clouds.As vaping has increased throughout the Western world, these fears have been repeated often. Part of last month’s King’s Speech in the UK focused on new legislation aiming to create a smoke-free generation in part by cracking down on youth vaping. Worldwide, there have been calls for tougher regulation and more investigation into vaping’s health effects as increasing numbers of children admit to taking up the habit.But there hasn’t been a huge amount to say on whether fears over health effects are well-founded – until recently. Now, vaping has finally been around for long enough for answers to start emerging from the fog.…