While vaping has been framed as a smoking cessation tool in mainstream media in the past, the 1.63 million middle and high school students reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2024 who use e-cigarettes tells a starkly different story. This concerning statistic brings a wave of health concerns for a new generation of individuals experiencing addiction to tobacco products.<\/p>\n
Jonathan Shannahan, professor of health sciences and assistant dean for research in the Purdue University College of Health and Human Sciences, and Christa Wright former Senior Research Director of the Center for Toxicology and Human Health within Chemical Insights of UL Research Institutes, have worked to not only explore these health consequences but also inform these demographics of what vaping and e-cigarette use does in the body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":47990,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,19],"tags":[2571,263,1726,240,381,2572,1834],"class_list":["post-47975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-sciences","category-research","tag-christa-wright","tag-college-of-health-and-human-sciences","tag-jonathan-shannahan","tag-purdue-university","tag-school-of-health-sciences","tag-ul-chemical-insights-research-institute","tag-vaping"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n