Gambling with Your Lungs- E-cigs & Vape Roulette with Dr. Jeff Gotts

Today I am joined by Dr. Jeffrey Gotts, MD, PhD. Like me, he is a lung and ICU doctor trying to navigate all the valid questions his patients and community have about e-cigarettes, vaping, etc. He is also an expert on the science regarding vaping. We discuss what that science tells us about e-cigarettes, as well as exploring the hope that many have felt that these devices may represent a path towards freedom from conventional cigarettes. As always, the tobacco industry is pressing their agenda of killing people for profit (or not caring that people die for their profits), as well as addicting children for financial gain. Despite that downer of a fact, this is an engaging episode to help understand the science behind e-cigarettes/vaping, and how it affects our immune responses in our lungs. Since both Dr. Gotts and I are working on the frontline in the COVID 19 pandemic, that can’t help but enter our conversation as well. And, as always, Big Tobacco is out spreading doubt and uncertainty and risking lives in the process. It’s like they are racketeers or something…. Wait. I think we already decided that.

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