The spinMyth 09 of 14
“A new study shows vaping is worse than smoking.”
The 2025 “worse than smoking” headlines came from an ongoing study presented as a conference abstract — not a peer-reviewed paper.
The evidence
In 2025, UK media ran hard with a Manchester Metropolitan University study on young vapers’ fitness and blood vessels.
At the time of the headlines, the work was an ongoing study presented as a conference abstract. It hadn’t been through peer review.53 As of September 2026 we couldn’t find a peer-reviewed publication.
Headlines aren’t evidence. Until a study is published, nobody can check its methods, its numbers, or who was compared with whom.
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