We ignored the evidence linking cigarettes to cancer. Let's not do that with vaping Brendon Stiles and Steve Alperin The Guardian How Can Smoking and Vaping Impact Cancer? Urology Care Foundation Health effects and known pathology associated with the use of E cigarettes ScienceDirect Using nicotine based vapes is likely to cause lung and oral cancer, even if e cigarette users do not smoke tobacco, a watershed academic review has found.