Vaping: A Walter Reed Doctor's warning

Hand holding e-cig and cigarettes. Doctors warns about vaping
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What some have called a safer alternative to smoking cigarettes is now suspected of causing over a dozen deaths and hundreds of lung-related illnesses across the country.

So what’s the deal? Are people dying because they’re hitting their vapes 24-7, or is there something more dangerous within e-cigs?

We asked Dr. Michael D’Onofrio, Service Chief for Occupational Medicine, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to tell us whether they're safe or if users are blowing killer clouds.

 

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