UK study shows e-cigarettes help adult smokers quit, but US experts urge caution

[AttyPops]

I recently began wondering if there is a connection between the reduction in smoking and the meteoric rise of Alzheimer's.
Maybe people are just living longer.
Alas, there may be
Nicotine may help prevent your brain from aging and hold off Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s

Note the beginning of the article mentions ecigs, but the end just says "smoking".

I don't believe there is yet a positive connection, and doubt anyone will be looking further.

Researchers are starting to call Alzheimer's type 3 diabetes. It's likely to be primarily a lifestyle disease, bad diet, too much sugar. Half of all US adults either have type 2 diabetes or will develop it without making changes. Metabolic disease related to diet is a far bigger threat to kids (and adults) than puffing on Juuls. The FDA knows that better than anybody and if the don't they're worse than useless.

Switching to vaping 4 years ago paved the way for me to reform my diet and exercise. In the past year I said goodbye to 25 pounds and got back my highschool weight and waistline. (Kids were skinny back in those days.)

There's a lot going on with alz, including genetics and gum health!

Smoking rate decline and rise in late-stage alz go hand-in-hand mostly because smoking tends to kill you faster than normal-non-smoking life. So you simply die before alz is diagnosed. Add to that the fact that diagnosing it is more common now than, say, 40 years ago, and it isn't all that surprising.

Nicotine (as in patch) can help alleviate some of the symptoms a bit, allowing an alz sufferer to be a bit more "alert". But as far as I know it doesn't alter the disease. Smoking, however, is a know factor in making it worse for some reasons (and there's 5000 to 7000 chemical potential reasons in smoke).

 

[Philabos]

There's a lot going on with alz, including genetics and gum health!

Smoking rate decline and rise in late-stage alz go hand-in-hand mostly because smoking tends to kill you faster than normal-non-smoking life. So you simply die before alz is diagnosed. Add to that the fact that diagnosing it is more common now than, say, 40 years ago, and it isn't all that surprising.

Nicotine (as in patch) can help alleviate some of the symptoms a bit, allowing an alz sufferer to be a bit more "alert". But as far as I know it doesn't alter the disease. Smoking, however, is a know factor in making it worse for some reasons (and there's 5000 to 7000 chemical potential reasons in smoke).

That occurred to me as well.
People are living longer thus the disease becomes more prevalent. Undoubtedly true.
My point was there may be more going on here. As the study shows there MAY be a connection between the decline of nicotine and the quite massive increase in the problem. Quite rightly they say tobacco smoking is even worse. But they went silent on ecigs at the end.
All is speculation at this point, but an interesting theory. I wish there was more research.
I was unaware of the gum health issue, although one would imagine that has not changed demonstrably over the last 40 years.