Adolescents who reported vaping marijuana were roughly twice as likely to report “wheezing and … [+]
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A new study found that teens who vape cannabis had more symptoms of lung injury than those who smoked cigarettes, marijuana or e-cigarettes.
The study conducted by researchers at University of Michigan, looked at self-reported symptoms such as wheezing and whistling in the chest and dry cough from a sample of adolescents between the ages 12 and 17 from the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health Study.
What they found were that adolescents who vape marijuana were at a greater risk for respiratory symptoms indicative of lung injury than teens who smoked cigarettes or weed, or vaped nicotine.
According to the study, teens who reported vaping marijuana were about twice as likely to report “wheezing and whistling” in the chest than those who used e-cigarettes or smoked.
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