Clearing the air on the vaping crisis
To Health With It
English - December 17, 2019 10:00 - 25 minutes - 19.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsNutrition Health & Fitness health wellness employee health workplace wellness mental health physical health Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Vaping has steadily grown in popularity with both adults and America’s youth—becoming a deadly, nationwide epidemic with thousands of reports of serious lung illness. In this episode, we talk with Dr. Rashelle Hayes about what’s behind the recent headlines and major health issues associated with vaping. We’ll discuss what’s contributing to the surge in use, the health risks relative to smoking, and look back at the promising early days of vaping when e-cigarettes were widely believed to be a safer alternative to smoking tobacco.