January 31, 2018 | 09:15 Facebook Twitter Research scientists at New York University shows that e-cigarettes may increase the risk of cancer and heart disease. The results of the work published in the journal PNAS. Mutagenic activity of vapor electronic cigarettes tested on mice. Animals over 12 weeks (equivalent to 10 years people) subjected to sprays of electronic cigarettes. As a result, signs of DNA damage was observed in the tissues of their hearts, lungs and bladder. Compared with the control group, the cells of the lungs "mice-smokers" worse restored after random mutations and produced less proteins, triggering this process. Researchers concluded that nicotine may be a carcinogen irre... [Read more]