Hundreds of people nationwide have been hospitalized recently with severe cases of pneumonia or other lung illnesses — all believed to be directly linked to vaping.
says nicotine can cause an increase in blood pressure, heart rate and a narrowing of the arteries, as well as increase the risk of a heart attack.
CBD has been marketed as a potential treatment for a variety of health problems, including insomnia, anxiety and chronic pain. However the majority of those claims remain unproven. There have been a few small studies on CBD, but they were not the large, robust clinical trials needed to prove that a compound is either safe or effective.
Even less is known about the effect of vaping THC. But THC vapes have been implicated in many of the respiratory illnesses reported nationwide recently, and health officials have urged consumers to stay away from them. E-cigarettes produce an aerosol by heating the e-liquid with metal coils. Those metal coils can be composed of a variety of substances, including an alloy of iron, chromium and aluminum called kanthal, or a combination of nickel and chromium.study released in 2018 found those metals leach into vaping aerosol at dangerous levels."Our findings indicate that e-cigarettes are a potential source of exposure to toxic metals , and to metals that are toxic when inhaled .
The FDA is testing about 80 product samples from patients who developed respiratory illnesses after vaping, but has not yet released results from those tests. The agency said that although no single product or ingredient has been found in all of the cases, many patients had reported vaping THC and other cannabis-based substances.
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