District Judge Gladys Kessler issued a landmark judgment that these companies violated civil racketeering laws and lied to the public for decades about the health risks and addictiveness of cigarettes and their marketing to children
Clinical research has shown that e-cigarettes can cause oxidative stress, mutations, dysfunction of heart cells, inflammation of the blood vessels, dysfunction of the endothelium (inner lining of the blood vessels), vasospasm (narrowing of the blood vessels), aggregation of platelets and increased risk of blood clots , hypertension (high blood pressure), tachycardia (increased heart rate), stiffening of the arteries, atherosclerosis (cholesterol deposition in the arteries), and increased risk of myocardial infarction ( heart attack )
France followed suit in February, and the UK will enforce its own ban starting June 2025
The reviewers considered that theres moderate evidence that nicotine e-cigarettes can cause headaches, coughing, throat irritation, dizziness and nausea