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Vaping-associated pulmonary injury (VAPI), [4] also known as vaping-associated lung injury (VALI) [1] or e-cigarette, or vaping, product use associated lung injury (E/VALI), [2] [a] is an umbrella term, [15] [16] used to describe lung diseases associated with the use of vaping products that can be severe and life-threatening. [3]
Critics of vaping bans state that vaping is a much safer alternative to smoking tobacco products and that vaping bans incentivize people to return to smoking cigarettes. [148] For example, critics cite the British Journal of Family Medicine in August 2015 which stated, "E-cigarettes are 95% safer than traditional smoking."
JUUL e-cigarette with a battery and differently flavored pods. Vaping presents health risks that are definitionally higher than those of simple abstinence, as no independent health benefits have been reported, while nicotine and cannabis have well-established harms.
And while Juul may not be responsible for the short-term lung injuries that have killed more than 50 Americans, the company has been implicated in the spike in vaping use among teens.
LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM)– Pennsylvania State Police are searching for a suspect who pepper-sprayed an 89-year-old woman before fleeing the scene in a road rage incident in Lancaster County ...
Monroe County and Rochester-area schools will receive $7.4 million for anti-vaping efforts as part of a multi-state settlement with the company Juul, Attorney General Letitia James announced Tuesday.
Its widespread use by young people triggered concern from the public health community and multiple investigations by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), [1] [17] and the high nicotine concentrations in Juul was seen as a potential health hazard to young people. [18] Juul agreed to pull certain flavored cartridges, which could entice ...
Pepper spray packs a serious punch. Pepper spray, along with tear gas, is one of the most common weapons in police departments’ crowd control arsenals. It was frequently used against protesters ...