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Despite being widely viewed as a safer alternative to tobacco, e-cigarettes aren’t harmless, especially to adolescents. But social media is rife with glossy content that makes vaping look fun and cool.
Product placement in music videos totals $15 million to $20 million a year and is rising. E-cigarette makers are discovering it’s a great way to lure young adults into vaping.
Experts at Oxford University’s Centre for Evidence Based Medicine review the latest evidence on how to quit smoking.
Yet regulators remain torn.
Vaping increases the number of receptors that allow coronavirus to invade your cells and compromises your immune system.
From 2021, it will be harder to import e-cigarettes. That protects young people, in particular, who are increasingly being lured into nicotine and tobacco addiction.
From 2021, Australians will no longer be able to buy nicotine-containing e-fluids, without both a prescription and someone licensed to import it for them, raising fears many will go back to smoking.
Our oral microbiome is the second most diverse and equally important microbiota in the body.
Current legislation focuses on the flavor of e-cigarettes. But the latest research shows the attraction isn’t about taste.
Even as evidence of its adverse effects emerges, vaping is growing more popular among young people.
A prominent paper on vaping and heart disease has been retracted.
The FDA has banned flavored e-cigarettes that appeal to kids. But new research shows that the danger of flavors could go beyond their appeal to kids. The flavorings themselves could cause damage.
More evidence that vaping may be harmful to your health.
As new vaping-related lung diseases continue to be identified, jurisdictions around the world might want to take a look at new vaping regulations in British Columbia, Canada.
A form of vitamin E could be behind recent vaping illnesses and death, as the vitamin was not meant to go into the lungs. Lax oversight of products and supplements only worsens the situation.
As vaping increases among youth, so do the life-threatening lung injuries that accompany it. ‘Popcorn lung’ is the latest.
Concerns about e-cigarettes are growing, with the AMA calling for a ban. With the Great American Smokeout on Nov. 21, it’s worth asking: What do smokers think?
Governments around the world are banning e-cigarettes. This is very bad news for public health.
More than 20 countries have banned e-cigarettes.
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Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
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Assistant Professor of Health Promotion and Policy, UMass Amherst, UMass Amherst
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Associate Professor, School of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Rutgers University
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Senior Adviser, The Daffodil Centre, University of Sydney
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Professor of Community Health and Health Behavior, University at Buffalo
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity, University of New South Wales, UNSW Sydney
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Academic and Director Collaboration for Evidence, Research and Impact in Public Health, Curtin University
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Specialist Scientist, Alcohol Tobacco and Other Drug Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council
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Professor and Dean, School of Public Health, Georgia State University
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Tobacco treatment, UNSW Sydney
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Director, NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor, Melbourne Centre for Behaviour Change, The University of Melbourne
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University Research Lecturer, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford
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Bruce and John Usher Professor of Public Health, The University of Edinburgh
