E-Cigarettes: The Dangers and Health isks of Vaping/Story: Back to School with Bigfoot

Lorenzo's Health Corner: E-Cigarettes: The Dangers and Health Risks of Vaping   Five states in India have banned e-cigarettes.  The US should do the same!   By Nicole Spector   “The tobacco industry has been forced to fess up about the dangers of smoking by slapping grisly warnings on cigarette packs, but it hasn’t yet been cornered into giving such disclaimers on e-cigarettes and other vaping products. Mounting research and medical expertise indicates it’s high time these items were more strictly regulated. More importantly, people need to know just how potentially harmful vaping can be. Not only are e-cigarettes assuredly not the healthy alternative to smoking that we once thought; new research shows they may hold their own set of health risks.   The study, conducted by UNC School of Medicine and published in the American Thoracic Society’s American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, found that not only do e-cigarettes trigger the same potentially deadly immune responses that normal cigarettes do; they spur unique immune responses, too.”   https://www.nbcnews.com/better/health/better-cigarettes-vaping-comes-its-own-set-health-risks-ncna819716   Story: Back to School with Bigfoot. By Samantha Berger and Martha Brockenbrough