EVERY OTHER THURSDAY
WE'RE TAKING A LOOK AT
AN ISSUE OR CONCERN FOR
MANY PEOPLE AND TELLING
YOU WHAT YOU NEED TO
KNOW TO KEEP YOU
HEALTHY.
DR. KALANI BRADY IS HERE
TO TALK ABOUT THE
POSSIBLE LINK ABOUT THE
E-CIGARETTES AND
SEIZURES.
GOOD MORNING.
FIRST OF ALL, LET'S
TALK ABOUT E-VAPING,
WHAT IT IS AND THE
EFFECTS.
OKAY.
E-VAPING IN CIGARETTES,
IN REGULAR CIGARETTES,
BASICALLY WE LIGHT UP
AND WE HAVE A TOBACCO
THAT BURNS AND IN
ADDITION TO THE TOBACCO
IS NICOTINE AND TAR AND
A WHOLE BUNCH OF THINGS
THAT CAUSE CANCER.
AND THAT'S HOW WE INHALE
WHAT WE HAVE TO DO.
AND VAPING BASICALLY
THERE IS BASICALLY A
CONTAINER WHICH IS
FAIRLY SMALL AND YOU CAN
SEE IN THESE PEOPLE ON
THE SCREEN THAT
BASICALLY THERE IS A
HEATER INSIDE WHICH
CAUSES SOME OF THE VAPE
TO TURN INTO VAPOR WHICH
YOU THEN INHALE, AND SO
IT'S NOT A BURNING.
IT'S MORE JUST A
CREATION OF VAPOR.
AND IT DOES NOT INCLUDE
TOBACCO USUALLY.
IT INCLUDES DIFFERENT
THINGS, DIFFERENT TASTES
THAT WE HAVE IN THE
VAPOR.
AND HOW IS IT
POSSIBLE THAT IT COULD
BE LINKED TO SEIZURES?
WELL, NICOTINE IS A
VERY POWERFUL DRUG.
NICOTINE IS ACTUALLY
MORE ADDICTIVE THAN
HEROIN OR COCAINE.
IT'S VERY, VERY
DISTURBING.
VERY, VERY ADDICTIVE.
AND SO YOU GET
NICOTINE IN THESE LITTLE
VAPES WITH VARYING
STRENGTHS, AND THE
STRONGEST OF THEM CAN
ACTUALLY CAUSE YOU TO
HAVE SEIZURES, AND
THAT'S BEEN KNOWN FOR
SOME TIME.
YOU CAN ACTUALLY HAVE
ENSEVDAMAGE TO THE BRAIN AND
EVEN DEATH FROM
NICOTINE.
IT'S A SERIOUS
CONTAINMENT FROM VAPING.
AND IT SEEMS THAT
MORE TEENS ARE GETTING
INTO VAPING.
I DON'T THINK IF THEY
THINK IT LOOKS COOL OR
BECAUSE OF THE TASTE OR
FLAVORS OUT THERE, BUT
IT IS ALMOST I WOULD SAY
MORE HARMFUL FOR THEM.
THERE'S A LOT OF
PROBLEMS INCLUDING
ASTHMA.
RIGHT.
AND THE SCOPE OF THE
PROBLEM, AS YOU SAY IS
IMMENSE.
THREE MILLION HIGH
SCHOOL STUDENTS
BASICALLY VAPED IN 2015,
AND BACK IN 2011, TWO IN
100 OR 2% OF HIGH SCHOOL
STUDENTS HAD USED
E-CIGARETTES.
BY 2015 THAT HAD RISEN
TO 16% AND BY 2018, 21%
OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
HAD BEEN VAPING.
SO IT'S AN EPIDEMIC IN
AMERICA.
AND IT CAN CAUSE ALL
TYPES OF THINGS, ASTHMA.
ASTHMA IS THE
INFLAMMATION OF THE
BREATHING TUBES WHICH IS
MORE COMMON IN CHILDREN
THAN ADULTS.
IMAGINE ALL OF THAT
VAPOR GOING INTO YOUR
LUNGS AND CAUSING
PROBLEMS WITH YOUR
BREATHING TUBES.
SO IF YOU DON'T THINK
THAT VAPING AND E-CIGS
IS HARMFUL, THERE'S EVEN
MORE REASON TO BE
CONCERNED NOW WITH THIS
INFORMATION.
RIGHT.