None
EN
Comment on Vaping’s dangers loom large amid more than 50 U.S. deaths this year by JUUL and Vaping: Rising Use & Rising Deaths
['Aimee Cunningham', 'Erin Garcia De Jesús', 'Brendan Pierson', 'Carolyn Gramling', 'Rebecca Dzombak', 'Katarina Zimmer', 'Emily Conover', 'Skyler Ware', 'Nikk Ogasa', 'December']
Comments for Science News
Whatever the final word on this type of lung injury, dubbed EVALI for “e-cigarette, or vaping, product use associated lung injury,” it won’t be the end of the story on the dangers of e-cigarettes. More alarmingly, another youth survey reported this year revealed that nearly 12 percent of high school seniors and 7 percent of sophomores use nicotine vapes daily, suggesting addiction (SN Online: 9/18/19). “It’s not painful to inhale,” says primary care pediatrician Susanne Tanski of the Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine in Hanover, N.H. Young people “are taking these large hits of nicotine,” she says, and more of these teens report that they’re highly addicted, even waking up at night to vape.