And in May, BBC News unearthed unnamed vapes confiscated from school pupils containing high levels of lead, nickel and chromium, with investigations revealing that children using them could be inhaling more than twice the daily safe amount of lead (which can affect the central nervous system and brain development), and nine times the safe amount of nickel (which can cause health problems including rhinitis, sinusitis, anosmia and more)
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The smell suggests something that needs cleaning up, not hiding forever
Its a real challenge for governments to think about how they can provide the protections that society is used to in a world where borders are broken down because of these technologies. Dr Nandita Murukutla, the vice president of behavioural insights and evaluation at Vital Strategies, says regulators should take note: What starts out small and you ignore, rises up to a certain point when youve got critical mass, and after that, it just explodes, and dialling something back is virtually impossible.
In England, tracking the women took me deep into rural Herefordshire, to Aylesbury and Salisbury and the narrow streets of Westminster and the City of London
Smoking men had 15% higher total and 13% higher free testosterone levels compared with men who never smoked
