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Health and Medicine

Well Said: Risk of E-cigarettes and vaping

In this week's podcast, the health risks of e-cigarettes are discussed.

They’re promoted as a safer alternative to smoking, but e-cigarettes may be posing their own serious health risks.

In this week’s episode, Ilona Jaspers, the director of the toxicology program at the UNC School of Medicine, discusses how inhaling the vaporized flavored liquids is altering genes important for immune defense.

Read a transcript of this episode.

Join us every Wednesday for the University’s podcast as we talk with Carolina’s newsmakers and experts. Each episode, students, faculty, staff and alumni will discuss what’s going on in classrooms, labs and around campus, and how it pertains to the local, national and international headlines.