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Whether you smoke cigarettes, vape, use nicotine pouches, or chew gum, the nicotine entering your body damages your heart and blood vessel tissues. Worse yet, nicotine consumption is surging, especially among teens and young adults.

A newly published expert consensus report from the European Society of Cardiology, appearing in the European Heart Journal, delivers this disturbing message. The report’s authors include cardiologists from Germany, Italy, the UK, and the US.

Multiple studies demonstrate that nicotine raises blood pressure, damages blood vessels, and increases heart disease risk. The damage occurs even in the absence of smoke, tar, and combustion toxins. The report also warns that secondhand exposure to vape and heated tobacco aerosols harms blood vessels.

One other warning. Nicotine is exceptionally addictive, and vaping, chewing. The use of pouches often act as gateways to compulsive use rather than cessation.

This report calls for urgent action including flavor bans, taxation based on nicotine content, non-seductive packaging, advertising restrictions, smoke- and aerosol-free public spaces, and stronger regulation to prevent a new wave of cardiovascular disease driven by nicotine addiction.

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-12-vapes-pouches-shisha-cigarettes-nicotine.html

https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/advance-article/doi/10.1093/eurheartj/ehaf1010/8377624?login=false

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