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\u201cI always try to counsel patients and families that pretty much anything that you\u2019re putting into your lungs, that\u2019s not healthy air to breathe or, for certain patients, some prescribed medications by their healthcare provider is really not helpful for your body or for your lungs and has the potential to be really harmful to … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116605,"featured_media":2778,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nJessica Young, Clinical Assistant Professor, UNC Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine - North Carolinians for a Tobacco-Free Generation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/2025\/12\/november-2024-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jessica Young, Clinical Assistant Professor, UNC Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine - 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