THE SUN MEMBER NEWSLETTER THE SUN MEMBER NEWSLETTER V4.2019 CARE MANAGEMENT Texas needs to ban vaping until more is known about its dangers. Texas needs a vaping break. Specifcally, a break from vaping. It’s time for at least a temporary ban, until doctors and researchers can discover what about vaping is causing illness and death. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has given this new lung condition an offcial name: EVALI, for ‘electronic cigarette or vaping product use associated lung injury.’ The CDC is tracking more than 1,200 cases and has confrmed 26 deaths in 21 states. My kids and their friends started experimenting with vaping in middle school. I remember smelling the sweet cotton-candy-like smell in their rooms. “Mom, it’s just vaping,” my son said. “We’re just vaping.” Back then, vaping was so new there were no scientifc studies showing potential side effects or even if vaping was effective in its original stated intent to stop people from smoking. ■ 4 https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/ article/Texas-needs-to-ban-vaping-until-moreisknown-14537033.php 4
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