Dentist compares smoking, vaping and heated tobacco to see which is worse and the results are clear

Although it's a common consensus that neither of smoking, vaping or using heated tobacco devices are the best things for our health, it does seem as if there is a clear winner.

It's long been debated which might be best for someone but the reality is that all three could have significant long-term impacts on our health, and that's not just limited to our lungs, as people who have quit vaping have quickly discovered.

When vaping was first introduced, it was thought of as a way of weaning people off dangerous cigarettes and getting them to eventually quit, and while they can still work in that way, they have become incredibly popular among people who might have never even smoked a cigarette.

After a doctor established a winner of the three when it comes to treating our bodies as a temple, when including the fires inside a temple at least, there was a clear winner and it seems as if dentist Dr Joseph Nemeth agrees.

In a YouTube video, he said: "Vaping is very common and its growing rapidly, particularly among high school kids. It's not good but it's not as bas as smoking. A study by the royal college of physicians shows it's 95 per cent less harmful than cigarette smoking."

Vaping has become extremely common among young people (Getty Stock)

However, as we have discovered in recent years, it is not the severity of e-cigarettes and vapes that make them so dangerous, but the regularity in which people smoke them in comparison to cigarettes.

While a cigarette smoker might have a few a day, it seems to be a common trend that people will carry their vapes with them wherever they go, and that regularity all builds up when it comes to damaging our bodies, as we have seen with some young people suffering from conditions such as 'popcorn lung'.

So, although there's no real doubt that a single cigarette is more harmful for our bodies, due to the increased nicotine percentage (in some cases) and other chemicals, a vape addiction could well be worse overall.

The dentist also spoke about the introduction of 'heated tobacco' devices such as IQOS, which work by giving you the nicotine hit without actually burning it and damaging your lungs with the smoke.

He said: "There's a nicotine vapour that comes out and the nicotine vapour is what you use to get the nicotine. It's much less harmful I'm sure than smoking because you're not burning it, you're not getting the smoke and the carcinogens that come with smoke but you are getting the nicotine and the hit from nicotine."

Cigarettes were identified as the worst of the three (Getty Stock)

So, while vaping is the lesser of two (or three) evils in this case, it's important that you don't do it non-stop, as it certainly isn't good for us in the long term.

Meanwhile, Dr Rayyan Zafar explained to Metro that while all three contained nicotine and were best avoided there was one clear winner when it came to being most harmful, which would mean someone addicted to them would come out the clear loser health-wise.

Unsurprisingly, the doctor said that the most harmful of the three was cigarettes 'by a very large margin'.