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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.
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."
A new analysis from researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health has uncovered a microbial toxin in Juul pods that has the potential to cause serious longterm lung damage.
A Florida college student is warning others about the dangers of smoking Juul pods after one of his lungs collapsed from the toxic chemicals in his mint-flavored pods.
The Netflix series "Big Vape" tells the story of the once-dominant Juul Labs—but it and the the U.S. vaping industry remains in flux.
Research on nicotine salts is limited. [3] Possible health risks of persistent inhalation of high levels of nicotine salts are not fully known. [3] " Juul products use nicotine salts, which can lead to much more available nicotine," Principal Deputy Director Dr. Anne Schuchat of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stated in September 2019. [4]
The Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday that it has reversed its ban on Juul e-cigarettes while it reviews new court decisions and considers updated information provided by the vape maker.