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Hitting the Books: The continuing controversies surrounding e-cig safety


Hitting the Books: The continuing controversies surrounding e-cig safety
Engadget
1/30/2021
Andrew Tarantola
Though more than a billion people worldwide still smoke cigarettes, folks who are looking to kick the habit have an ever-widening wide array of modern assistive techniques and technologies at their disposal. However, among the talk therapies and transdermal nicotine patches, no smoking cessation aid has perhaps had more of an impact in pop and mainstream culture than e-cigarettes. In
Viral BS: Medical Myths and Why We Fall for Them, Dr. Seema Yasmin examines controversies surrounding the tobacco replacement technology as well as a host of other pieces of “common” medical knowledge. In the excerpt below, Yasmon recalls the months of 2019 when vaping briefly took a turn for the deadly. ....

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