Tag: Smoking
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Animal study shows flavored e-cigarettes may worsen asthma
Researchers from the University of Technology Sydney, University of Vermont and the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research conducted an animal study in mice to determine the effect of flavored e-cigarettes, with or without nicotine, on allergic airways disease. Results of the study showed that some flavored e-cigarettes may alter asthma pathophysiology even when used without…
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Reports of burns with electronic cigarettes
Dr. Gary Vercruysse and his colleagues from the University of Arizona reports three thermal burn injuries following use of electronic cigarettes. These reports appears in the journal Burns and points to lithium ion battery failure as the culprit. The researchers’ study comes at a time of increasing scrutiny of lithium ion batteries contained in so-called…
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