FIGURE 2. Vaping causes serious systemic disturbances throughout the body, including damage to organs of the cardiovascular, nervous, immunological, and respiratory systems.Damage is primarily due to the deleterious effects of toxic compounds contained in the e-liquid, which exacerbate oxidative stress responses and inflammatory reactions, resulting in endothelial dysfunction, cellular senescence, and subsequent disease sequelae (2, 6-10).COVER.Artistic depiction of the effects of vaping electronic cigarettes in the brain.The gray and smoky outline of the brain represents widespread effects, and the colored arrows represent neural pathways responsible for the psychiatric, neurological, and cognitive effects of nicotine, the e-liquid substances, and their by-products.All images were created with Canva and BioRender.com,for which the Mid-Atlantic (VISN 6) MIRECC holds renewable registrations.
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López-Ojeda et al. (2024) studied this question.