Virtually everything is safer than smoking.
But what a ridiculous study. The inclusion of contacts as, "medical equipment" seems like an attempt to generate numbers for an otherwise unremarkable idea and correspondingly useless study.
The most serious problems involved implanted devices such as brain shunts for kids with hydrocephalus (water on the brain); chest catheters for cancer patients receiving chemotherapy at home; and insulin pumps for diabetics. Infections and overdoses are among problems associated with these devices. Only 6 percent of patients overall had to be hospitalized.
You're kidding right?!? The most serious problems came from serious medical devices in kids that are either very sick (hydrocephalus) or dying (chemo). Wow, who would have guessed that serious medical issues can make you, you know, go to the hospital.
I sincerly hope this "study" was funded with a private donation.