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Vaping sickness: what we know and what we don't

The Globe and Mail's health reporter, Andre Picard, on what we know, and what we dont, about vaping and health after one Canadian was put on life-support, and eight Americans died from vaping-related illnesses.
The Middlesex-London Health Unit says a local young person has been diagnosed with a severe respiratory illness that's been linked to his or her use of vaping. (Kate Dubinski/CBC)

A young man in London, Ont., was recently put on life-supportwith a respiratory illness that's been linked to vaping. He wasthe first with that diagnosis in Canada, after more than 450 Americans fell ill, and eight died, also from vaping-linked respiratory illnesses. How much do we actually know about the health impacts of vaping nicotine or marijuana? Andre Picard is the health reporter for the Globe and Mail. He says the jury is still out. "Smoking is like jumping off the hundredth floor of a building," says Picard. "Vaping is like jumping out, we just don't know which floor yet."

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