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Sep 11, 2019 · Simah Herman, 18, wants to be an anti-vaping advocate after vaping caused her to develop a life-threatening lung illness.
- Pneumonia
Whoopi Goldberg announced on Friday that she had been absent...
- Pneumonia
- 'There Was Blood Everywhere'
- Tracking vaping-related Emergencies
- The 'Head Rush'
Dexter, 16, was at her father's house in Elmsdale, N.S., on Nov. 10, when she took a hit from her vape device shortly after breakfast. Soon after, she started to feel dizzy. She woke up on the floor about three minutes later with a busted lip, a chipped tooth and a broken nose. "There was blood everywhere," said Dexter's mother Laura Dexter, who ca...
It's difficult to determine how many teens or adults have suffered similar fainting spells or seizures as a result of vaping. Dr. Martin Laliberté, an emergency physician and toxicologist at McGill University Health Centre, said Dexter could have suffered either a seizure or a fainting spell caused by a sharp drop in blood pressure. Laliberté sugge...
Prior to her collapse, Dexter had been vaping for about eight months. She described getting a "head rush" with fruit-flavoured vapes with small amounts of nicotine at first, but eventually graduated to liquid with a higher concentration — 50 milligrams per millilitre, or five per cent nicotine — to reach the same heights. In total, she'd vape liqui...
Aug 2, 2022 · People use the term “vaping” to describe the act of inhaling cannabis that’s been heated with temperatures so low it turns into vapor rather than smoke. But not all vaping is the same – and...
- People often choose to vape cannabis over smoking flower because of its convenience, discretion, and efficiency; there are times when one just does...
- The perception that vaping doesn’t harm the lungs is likely wrong. A 2020 study of 2,553 young adults found that cannabis vaping at any point was a...
- There’s a fair amount of variability in the outcomes of studies that compare smoking and vaping cannabis, highlighting the challenges in studying t...
- Studies comparing the long-term safety and health effects between smoking versus vaping often capture a use period when these unregulated products...
Sep 29, 2022 · In 2021, only 34% of adults who smoked accurately perceived that vaping was less harmful than smoking, while only 11% of adult smokers knew that nicotine wasn’t the primary cause of the health risks connected to smoking tobacco.
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- Vaping is just as harmful as smoking. Nicotine vaping is not risk-free, but it is substantially less harmful than smoking. In 2022, UK experts reviewed the international evidence and found that "in the short and medium-term, vaping poses a small fraction of the risks of smoking".
- Nicotine is very harmful to health. Although nicotine is addictive, it is relatively harmless to health. It is the many other toxic chemicals contained in tobacco smoke that cause almost all the harm from smoking.
- Vaping does not help people quit smoking. Nicotine vapes are one of the most effective stop smoking aids. Evidence shows that nicotine vapes are actually more effective than nicotine replacement therapies, like patches or gum.
- Switching to a vape is just swapping one harmful addiction for another. While vapes contain the same addictive substance as cigarettes, vaping nicotine is far less harmful.
Aug 28, 2023 · At first glance, the research might seem to suggest that smoking weed is a good way to lose weight. But there’s no evidence that using cannabis directly causes weight loss.
Apr 26, 2021 · Currently, the evidence doesn’t suggest that many young people who have never smoked are vaping regularly, or that vaping is causing more young people in the UK to start smoking. But, vaping in young people is something we’re concerned about and are watching the evidence on closely.
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