E-cigarettes May Boost Resistance of Drug-Resistant Pathogens

 Just recently there was an article about E-cigarettes and Mental health.  Here we have another finding of a different sort.  this time the danger is that they build up a resistance to drugs which then makes it difficult to kill bacteria. A paragraph from the article shows us just how dangerous smoking E-cigarettes can be.


“The virulence of MRSA is increased by e-cigarette vapor,” said lead investigator Laura E. Crotty Alexander, MD, VA researcher and assistant professor of medicine in pulmonary and critical care at UCSD. Exposure to e-cigarette vapor increased the virulence of the bacteria, helping MRSA escape killing by antimicrobial peptides

E-cigarettes May Boost Resistance of Drug-Resistant Pathogens

Poisonings from E-Cigarettes

 This post is totally alarming.  What are the makers of these cigarettes doing to Society.  Very concerning for parents of Teenagers who are experimenting with these E-cigarettes.  They were supposed to be a healtier alternative to smoking and here we are being informed that they can be lethal.

Poisonings from E-Cigarettes and Synthetic Pot Are Surging 

E-Cigarettes and Mental Health

E-Cigarettes are much in the news today.  They were supposed to be the answer for Smokers to quit the habit or reduce the amount of cigarettes that puffed each day.  It now has been revealed that they also carry dangers to Mental Health Patients.  The article below highlights some of the concerns by the Medical Profession in relation to the use of E-Cigarettes.


E-Cigarettes and Mental Health