Letter: E-cigarettes will burn users in the long run

DR. THECKEDATH MATHEW BRIGHTON, Senior interventional cardiologist, Rochester Heart Institute
E-cigarettes are real nicotine products, camouflaged in heat and vapor, carrying all the ill effects that nicotine could do on the cardiovascular system.
Nicotine is a vasoconstrictor agent that produces spasm on the blood vessels, including the coronary arteries and the vessels in the brain, leading to heart attack and stroke. Nicotine can lead to blood clots that eventually leads to heart attack and stroke.
Nicotine is an atherogenic agent. It promotes plaque formation in the blood vessels that contribute to plaque rupture in the heart and brain, again leading to heart attack and stroke. Nicotine has a deleterious effect on the arteries to the legs compromising the blood supply leading to amputation of the legs in many cases.
E-cigarettes are real nicotine products carrying all the adverse effects of nicotine and there is nothing to be glamorized about it.
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