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"Personally, I think anybody who sees the uptake of e-cigarettes amongst youth should be concerned about long-term consequences ... because we just don't know what the health risks are," says Dr. Daniel Conklin, a University of Louisville Medical School professor and researcherA visit to Conklin's lab requires donning a Tyvek jumpsuit to limit contamination.
Dr. Daniel Conklin stands next to a device that can smoke cigarettes or vape from e-cigarettes and analyze the results in his lab at the University of Louisville. "The FDA is interested in regulating e-cigarettes, but they want to regulate particular constituents that are harmful," Conklin explains."And so we're trying to figure out what components of the aerosol of e-cigs is contributing to the injury to the heart."
Conklin's lab setup allows researchers to try to mirror real-world e-cigarette use. At the lab, Conklin plugs an e-cigarette into a holder. The end of it lights up blue as pumps whir to life, activating the e-cigarette and pulling air through a series of tubes and small black boxes containing the equipment that will measure what's in the vapor.
"We can control the volume of the puff so it's consistent with ... the puff volume that people would take, and the duration," he says."But I have to tell you, the real world's very diverse when it comes to electronic cigarettes. Some people just do very light drags on their e-cigs. Others take bigger puffs in order to make vape clouds and do cloud tricks and so on."
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