my name is Brian Thomas and I'm a
pediatric pulmonologist and director of
the cystic fibrosis Center at Michigan
State University so the first thing I
think do start with is well what is
vaping unlike traditional cigarette
hookah cigar rolling on combustion
babying uses sort of a combination of
electronic product and a pot or some
sort of liquid and so the vape device
heats and then atomizes this liquid I
think the initial idea was that this
might be slightly less harmful than
traditional combustion based nicotine
inhalation so I think that very much
remains to be seen right now because
vaping is relatively new we're kind of
dealing with to sort of separate
problems the first problem is you know
is this safe in general and that's
mostly looking at people who are using
vaping as a way to put cigarettes or as
a alternative to traditional cigarettes
thinking about both short and long term
or the health consequences of this
secondarily the sort of acute burst of
vaping induced lung injury that we were
seeing there is data out there that as
many as 30% of college-age people there
have tried vaping or maybe someone
regularly which is a tremendous increase
from the area of where the total
cigarette use in the community
less than 10% it's a really large
increase and I think that's what's so
concerning about this is we had over the
course of decades app the number of
people who are using nicotine containing
products regularly and now what we're
seeing is a rapid increase in the number
of young people both college-age and
high school aged kids that are using
these products and getting addicted
I think the way MSU can help with this
issue is really to help us gather more
information I think both from an
epidemiologic standpoint and from a
public health standpoint we still are
struggling in the medical community to
effectively quantify how many people are
they being regularly my place for
students really to try and stay away
from it as much as possible and that's
important because the Joule products use
nicotine salts that allows you to
tolerate much larger amounts of nicotine
in any given dose and so there's really
evidence is playing a huge role in it
because in Europe they have regulated
the amount of nicotine that can be
present in these products and we're not
seeing nearly the rate of teen and young
adult addiction that we are in the
United States I think we can pretty
directly believe that that's related to
the high levels of nicotine and the
products they're just so much more
addictive than any of the other
preceding products or before so Michigan
State's been really committed to
healthcare in general MSU has made a lot
of investments globally and nationally
on improving public health or
moving access to resources michigan seat
is actually top ten and combined NSF and
NIH funding so there's a lot a really
important science and medicine research
Kingdom what we're trying to do is take
that wonderful place where we're
learning a lot about basic science and
public health and try and integrate it
into what the health team is doing Emma
C has really made a tremendous
investment and making sure that we have
the resources to community needs
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you
pediatric pulmonologist and director of
the cystic fibrosis Center at Michigan
State University so the first thing I
think do start with is well what is
vaping unlike traditional cigarette
hookah cigar rolling on combustion
babying uses sort of a combination of
electronic product and a pot or some
sort of liquid and so the vape device
heats and then atomizes this liquid I
think the initial idea was that this
might be slightly less harmful than
traditional combustion based nicotine
inhalation so I think that very much
remains to be seen right now because
vaping is relatively new we're kind of
dealing with to sort of separate
problems the first problem is you know
is this safe in general and that's
mostly looking at people who are using
vaping as a way to put cigarettes or as
a alternative to traditional cigarettes
thinking about both short and long term
or the health consequences of this
secondarily the sort of acute burst of
vaping induced lung injury that we were
seeing there is data out there that as
many as 30% of college-age people there
have tried vaping or maybe someone
regularly which is a tremendous increase
from the area of where the total
cigarette use in the community
less than 10% it's a really large
increase and I think that's what's so
concerning about this is we had over the
course of decades app the number of
people who are using nicotine containing
products regularly and now what we're
seeing is a rapid increase in the number
of young people both college-age and
high school aged kids that are using
these products and getting addicted
I think the way MSU can help with this
issue is really to help us gather more
information I think both from an
epidemiologic standpoint and from a
public health standpoint we still are
struggling in the medical community to
effectively quantify how many people are
they being regularly my place for
students really to try and stay away
from it as much as possible and that's
important because the Joule products use
nicotine salts that allows you to
tolerate much larger amounts of nicotine
in any given dose and so there's really
evidence is playing a huge role in it
because in Europe they have regulated
the amount of nicotine that can be
present in these products and we're not
seeing nearly the rate of teen and young
adult addiction that we are in the
United States I think we can pretty
directly believe that that's related to
the high levels of nicotine and the
products they're just so much more
addictive than any of the other
preceding products or before so Michigan
State's been really committed to
healthcare in general MSU has made a lot
of investments globally and nationally
on improving public health or
moving access to resources michigan seat
is actually top ten and combined NSF and
NIH funding so there's a lot a really
important science and medicine research
Kingdom what we're trying to do is take
that wonderful place where we're
learning a lot about basic science and
public health and try and integrate it
into what the health team is doing Emma
C has really made a tremendous
investment and making sure that we have
the resources to community needs
[Music]
you
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