| category | factcheck |
| score | Mostly False 🟥🟥🟥🟥🟧 |
| claim | "Vaping raises blood sugar, leads to prediabetes" |
| url | https://www.prevention.com/health/a39326791/e-cigarette-vaping-increases-risk-for-diabetes-raises-blood-sugar-new-study/ |
| author | Hearst Magazine Media / Arielle Weg |
| tags | ['third-party-fact-check', 'popcorn-news', 'pr-study', 'title-exacerbation'] |

<img src="/img/rating/mostly-false.png" width=200 height=175 align=right alt=mostly-false>

Article reiterates talking points from a PR study bent on attributing risks
to e-cigarettes.  Even though most of which are former smokers, and simply
retain the existing raised levels of blood sugar.

> [PR study attributes prediabetes to e-cig usage](doc/trunk/factcheck/10.1016/j.amepre.2021.12.009.md)

### added contartions

 * <q>Leading to Prediabetes</q> makes a causality claim unspported by the paper
 * <q>e-cigarette use **may** increase</q> tries to subjunctively walk it back
 * <q>those who vape have a 22% increased risk of developing prediabetes compared to those who do not</q> - only if current smokers are discounted (which article later notes)
 * <q>to stop smoking e-cigarettes</q> - well, no smoke in e-cigs, but furthering relapse might make it true
 * <q>vaping has long been associated with fewer smoking-related complications</q> - unfortunately also linking to Johns Hopkins (EVALI, tobacco trivialization, vaping hysteridemic)
 * <q>can still cause your body some serious harm</q> - concluded from "prediabetes" (a somewhat non-descript nutritional assessment)
 * <q>Prediabetes is often reversible, …</q> - link to more worthwhile prevention.com article
 * <q>“Our study demonstrated a clear association of prediabetes risk with the use of e-cigarettes,” Shyam Biswal, Ph.D., lead investigator on the study, explained in a press release.</q> - parrots the "clear association" which the study itself very much did not.
 * <q>… 22% are more likely …. In comparison, those who smoke traditional cigarettes had a 40% chance…</q> - at least compared the numbers here
 * <q>"touted as a safer alternative, which we now know is not the case,” </q> → no reputable scientist…

### verdict

Albeit the article goes on to add some more useful notes on diabetes; it
mainly passes on PR here.  For absence of much review, and exaggartion in
title and teaser, this post inherits a "mostly false" score.

#### Other potential issues in article

 * [popcorn-news](/wiki/popcorn-news)
 * [ergo-harmful](/wiki/ergo-harmful)


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