What We Know (And Don't) About The Dangers Of Vaping

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🗓️ 16 October 2019

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Amid an outbreak of lung injury cases, there's a new spotlight on the dangers of vaping, a practice that's been marketed as an alternative to smoking. NPR health correspondent Allison Aubrey explains, with the story of one teenager whose vaping habit landed her in the ER. Follow host Maddie Sofia on Twitter @maddie_sofia. Email the show at [email protected].

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0:00.0	You're listening to Shortwave from NPR.
0:05.9	Maddie Sifai here, thanks for checking out this episode of Shortwave, the Daily Science
0:09.7	podcast from NPR.
0:11.5	Here today with NPR Health Correspondent, Alison Aubrey, hey Alison.
0:15.1	Hey there Maddie.
0:16.8	Today we're talking about something that's in the headlines a lot right now.
0:20.3	Yep, vaping.
0:21.3	Right.
0:22.3	And you're going to start us off today with a story about a young woman that you met recently,
0:25.9	Piper Johnson.
0:26.9	So she's 18 and when she was in high school, her sophomore year, she started vaping.
0:32.7	Then last summer, right around the time when her family was packing up the car to take
0:37.1	her off to college, she started feeling some pain in her chest.
0:41.8	You know, I didn't really think anything of it.
0:43.5	I took some Advil for it and then the day we left, I was like, I think I have bronchitis
0:49.1	or something.
0:51.0	Like I was running a fever.
0:52.6	My heart rate was like super, super high.
0:55.9	I was super like lethargic and stuff.
0:58.5	So instead of heading to the college campus, she and her mom went to the hospital, first
1:03.0	to the ER and then to the ICU.
1:06.1	My oxygen level just kept going down like more and more.
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