The CDC intensified its warnings about the risks of vaping, as the number of patients with vaping-related illness continues to climb, according to a report by NPR. The case count has reached 1080, the agency announced Thursday. There have been 18 deaths in 15 states and more deaths are bei...
The opioid crisis and deaths related to e-cigarette use among teenagers have dominated news headlines recently. Recently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that 34 people had died as a result of vaping and, in 2017, opioid addiction was responsiblefor more than 47,000 death...
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The study found that in 2015 pollution was linked over all to nine million deaths, or one in six of all deaths that occurred that year. Most of the pollution-related fatalities arose through non-communicable diseases, such as heart disease, stroke and lung cancer. “If you look at this fr...
The number of confirmed cases of vaping-related illnesses has increased significantly, from 380 on September 11 to 530 cases of lung injuries on September 19, according to theCDC. About 72% of these cases involve males, and 67% of the cases are patients who are between the ages of 18 and...
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said thatthere were at least 530 cases of lung injuries related to e-cigarette use in the United States as of September 11. The CDC has opened a criminal probe into the illnesses and deaths, focused on the supply chain for vaping pr...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Thursday that 1,479 vaping-related lung injury cases had been reported across the country as of Oct. 15. A total of 33 deaths have been confirmed in 24 U.S. states, with the median age...
He also takes issue with Canada's cannabis laws, which allow provinces to decide whether to restrict public consumption. "The issue is one of social modeling. It doesn't matter whether you're smoking or vaping, whether it's tobacco or nicotine or cannabis—to a five-year-old, it's all...
Tobacco status data used in the study included use of cigarettes, other smoked tobacco products (such as cigars and pipes) and smokelesstobacco products(such as chewing tobacco and snuff). The use of vaping products is not yet collected by the registry. ...
related cancers, like esophageal cancer. At least right now, vaping is not as common as cigarette smoking, so it's very hard to predict its impact. Obviously, those of us in public health are concerned that we don't really understand the risks, which appear to be greater than we thought...