Sunday @ 5 on WBFJ (October 6, 2019)

*Verne and Wally talk with Dr PJ Miller about the Vaping Crisis

Dr P.J. Miller, assistant professor of critical care medicine,

Wake Forest Baptist Health

The FDA as well as the Surgeon General are calling 'teen vaping' an epidemic. Not much is known yet about the benefits and risks of these products. Electronic cigarettes (or e-cigarettes) allow the user to inhale a vapor that may contain nicotine as well as other flavors and chemicals.

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USA TODAY: Vaping products, one of the fastest-growing segments of the legal cannabis industry, have taken a hit as public health experts scramble to determine what’s causing a mysterious and sometimes fatal lung disease among people who use e-cigarettes

Americans strongly support making vaping companies list all ingredients and health risks on product labels and barring teens from purchasing the electronic nicotine-delivery devices, according to a new USA TODAY survey.

*But 59% surveyed agree banning vaping will drive more consumers to the unregulated black market, the poll said. Read more

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2019/10/02/americans-strongly-support-teen-vaping-ban-poll-says/3826575002/