Tuesday, January 27, 2026 Though marketed as healthier alternatives to the traditional cigarette, popular e-cigarettes, vape pens, and nicotine pouches are all potently addictive and deceptively harmfulespecially for teens and adolescents, who are becoming hooked on nicotine products at alarming levels, according to SMH Comprehensive Lung Care Center Program Leader Amie J
ENDS products represent a potential disruptive innovation to traditional tobacco use, with adolescents and young adults experimenting with e-cigarettes, said Ayana April-Sanders, an instructor at the Rutgers School of Public Health and lead author of the study
In the 12-week study, Friedman and colleagues studied mice missing the gene for apolipoprotein E, which makes them more prone to developing heart disease and fat in the liver
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