Prevent This!

Episode 18: The Vaping Epidemic in Adolescents


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This session will discuss the basics of vaping, how it became popular among youth, the health risks linked to vaping, and the vaping-associated lung injury epidemic.

Guest: Louella B. Amos, MD

Dr. Amos is a Pediatric Pulmonologist and Sleep Medicine physician who has been on staff at Children's Wisconsin for 10 years. She and her colleagues were actively involved in caring for the teens who were admitted to the hospital last summer and fall with lung injury associated with vaping. Since then, Dr. Amos has participated in educational panels locally and nationally discussing the dangers of e-cigarette use in children and public advocacy efforts to protect children from these dangers.

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