And as lung tissue is damaged, it becomes more fibrous, making it harder for people to expand their lungs fully with each inhalation
On Tuesday, September 24, Massachusetts governor Charlie Baker announced a temporary emergency ban on all vaping products in Massachusetts
Lower respiratory illness in infants and toddlers Each year, secondhand smoke causes between 150,000 and 300,000 infants and toddlers to develop lower respiratory tract illnessese.g., bronchitis, those awful coughs that keep parents and baby up at night, and pneumonia
The percentage of middle and high school students who use electronic or e-cigarettes more than doubled between 2011 and 2012
While replacing plastic filters with biodegradable filters may seem a priori be a common sense measure, various public health and environmental organizations, relying on scientific literature, emphasize the counterproductive nature of such a measure