Toxic vapes and Russian treason
The Naked Scientists Podcast
Dr Chris Smith
4.6 • 958 Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All engine running. |
| 0:03.0 | Absolutely genius. |
| 0:04.0 | Get this. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome. |
| 0:06.0 | This is the show where we bring science. |
| 0:08.0 | What that essentially means is discovery is |
| 0:10.0 | advances, research, technology, unbelievable. |
| 0:13.4 | Without further ado, this is the Naked Scientists. |
| 0:17.2 | Hello, welcome to the Naked Scientists, |
| 0:18.9 | the program that brings you the latest breakthroughs in science, |
| 0:21.4 | technology, and medicine with me, Chris Smith. |
| 0:24.4 | And this week are public health officials preparing to clamp down on the sale of dangerous |
| 0:29.2 | vapes. |
| 0:30.2 | Also ahead how scientists are cracking why some of us are magnets for mosquitoes |
| 0:35.0 | and a very welcome floral addition to King's College, Cambridge. There are growing calls to clamp down on the underage sale and branding of e-cigarettes. A BBC investigation found that vapes |
| 0:54.7 | confiscated from school pupils contain dangerously high levels of lead, nickel and |
| 0:59.6 | chromium. Health officials are concerned. I've been speaking to leading public health |
| 1:03.8 | expert and social policy advisor for the Scottish government, Linda Bold, |
| 1:07.4 | beginning with whether she was surprised by the BBC's findings. |
| 1:11.1 | It's not terribly surprising to me because we always know with |
| 1:14.4 | age-restricted products you're going to have an illicit trade and when you have an |
| 1:18.0 | illicit market you can have constituents in the products which can be harmful. |
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