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Vaping Is Bad For Your Health<\/h3>\n

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…<\/a><\/p>\n

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Put that in your e-cigarette and smoke it, or should you?<\/h3>\n

February 11, 2016 – Smoking cigarettes dramatically increases a person\u2019s risk for a host of diseases, and there\u2019s an assumption that electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes, are not harmful because users do not inhale smoke full of known carcinogens. Read more…<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Proof is in the Pudding<\/h3>\n

August 1, 2015 – T-bone steak, banana pudding, peach schnapps, pi\u00f1a 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…<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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UNC professors get tobacco grants<\/h3>\n

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…<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Tarran funded by FDA, NIH to establish Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science<\/h3>\n

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 tob<\/span>acco regulatory activities. Read more…<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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