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As the nationwide death toll due to vaping-related lung disease , this topic has been making headlines lately as concerned medical providers, parents and even politicians are now demanding action.

This week, reported its with a vaping-related lung injury was admitted to the ICU. More than 500 cases of lung damage and seven deaths linked to聽vaping have been reported across the U.S. in the last few weeks, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

鈥淚t took decades and decades of smoking for us to realize that we had a lot of older people carrying around oxygen tanks and that they were doing damage to their lungs over an extended period of time,鈥� said , vice president and chief medical officer for . 鈥淢y concern is we have people thinking that this is safe and we鈥檙e not going to know that true effect of this, in terms of the damage occurring to people鈥檚 lungs, for years.鈥�

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鈥淭he CDC made a landmark statement: That all of our efforts to get children and adolescents and young adults to move away from nicotine have been 鈥榚rased鈥� 鈥� that鈥檚 a very powerful word,鈥� said , associate director of Cancer Prevention, Control and Population Health at the .

The use are impossible to ignore, she said.

鈥淪ome students are having a major experience immediately after they smoke, that they are having shallow breathing and they can鈥檛 get their breath. When they are admitted into the hospital and go to the emergency room, they are seeing that they actually have some lung damage and they are setting themselves up for future, more intensive lung disease problems,鈥� Tingen said.

serves as vice president and chief medical officer for AU Health System and associate dean for clinical affairs at the at 黑料正能量.

is a behavioral nurse scientist targeting the prevention of tobacco use in children. She can speak with media regarding the problems e-cigarettes pose for our society.

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