"We don't know what is in e-cigarette vapor because the devices haven't yet been fully regulated by the FDA [U.S
I feel awful for menthol cigarette smokers in Worcester and Boston, although the black market is strong, the ride to New Hampshire, Rhode Island, or Connecticut for a pack of Newport must have gotten old quick
The message about smoking tobacco being bad for you has gotten out there, but for cannabis, its much less clear, said Alison Rustagi, MD, PhD, assistant professor at UCSF and first author of the paper
When these secretions make their way into the lungs, it can lead to inflammation and what is known as aspiration pneumonia, Schaffner explained
Those things all have a really disproportionate impact on life expectancy because they tend to kill people when they're pretty young, where if they hadn't died, they would have had a lot of decades of life left." Increasingly, she says, there's an understanding that another contributing factor is slowed scientific progress in reducing deaths from heart attacks and heart disease "that are such major killers in the United States." That debate is somewhat moot when both funding for scientific research and for preventing deaths from injuries and overdoses are being cut by Secretary Kennedy in his overhaul of HHS
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