Vaping Health Impacts: No Smoke Without Fire?

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Science Radio, Engineering, Naked Scientists, Natural Sciences, Technology, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Science

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🗓️ 2 August 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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This week vaping, and the potential hidden health costs, go under the microscope as we also explore whether teens that would never smoke are being seduced by eCigarettes. Also, news of period impacts of the Covid-19 vaccines, woodpeckers and brain damage, signs that CRISPR could destabilise chromosomes, and a "wheely" good way to recycle old tyres... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:23.7	rocket fuel but not as we know it and definitely more sustainable plus.
0:27.8	These data are certainly worrying that there are effects in the lower airway
0:32.3	which will make individuals more vulnerable to bacteria and possibly viral infections.
0:36.4	We're looking at the rising trend in vaping.
0:39.4	Much safer than smoking, say some, but a hidden threat in the long term, argue others.
0:45.4	So what does the science say?
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0:52.2	Across the globe, over 12 billion doses of coronavirus vaccine have now been
0:56.4	administered and while potential side effects of a sore arm fever and
1:00.0	fatigue were widely publicized one impact not originally on the list began to crop up repeatedly.
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