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Vaping Is Bad For Your Health

August 24, 2016 – This is a new field and evidence is still emerging. However, perhaps the most compelling data on e-cigarettes has come out of the TCORS program that I direct at UNC. Researchers in this program looked for changes in gene expression in the upper airways of control subjects, healthy smokers and e-cig vapers. Startlingly, they found that more genes were changed in the airways of vapers than of smokers. Read more…


Put that in your e-cigarette and smoke it, or should you?

February 11, 2016 – Smoking cigarettes dramatically increases a person’s risk for a host of diseases, and there’s an assumption that electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes, are not harmful because users do not inhale smoke full of known carcinogens. Read more…


The Proof is in the Pudding

August 1, 2015 – T-bone steak, banana pudding, peach schnapps, piña colada, blueberry cobbler, peanut butter cup, Irish Cream, rum and coke, gummy bears, java jolt, and kiwi custard. This list is just a taste of the 7,000-plus flavors of electronic cigarettes available for consumption also known as vaping. Read more…


UNC professors get tobacco grants

Thursday, September 26, 2013 — Two professors were awarded a total of about $40 million to create projects for tobacco research at the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. Read more…


Tarran funded by FDA, NIH to establish Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science

Thursday, September 19, 2013 — UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine is one of 14 Tobacco Centers of Regulatory Science created by FDA, NIH. Research from new program to inform potential tobacco regulatory activities. Read more…