An upcoming free talk “Vaping: Separating Fact from Fiction,” is planned for Thursday, Nov. 4, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the Medical Sciences Building in the second floor auditorium.
Millions of people – including more than 6 million children – have taken up vaping as an alternative to smoking traditional tobacco cigarettes, but scientists and physicians say they are still inhaling a dangerous mixture of cancer-causing agents.
Speakers will include USA Health pediatrician Melody Petty, M.D., M.P.H., and Natalie R. Gassman, Ph.D., a former USA researcher who is now a scientist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Petty, also an assistant professor of pediatrics at the College of Medicine, was selected as the 2020 e-cigarette chapter champion for the Alabama Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) where she served as an advocate for the prevention of childhood nicotine use of products such as e-cigarettes.
E-cigarettes are electronic devices that heat a liquid and produce an aerosol, or mix of small particles in the air that are then “vaped” by the user. Most e-cigarettes contain nicotine, the addictive drug also found in regular cigarettes and other tobacco products. Estimates from the American Lung Association show that more than six million children are using tobacco products in the Unites States.
Register here to attend in person or by Zoom. A limited number of meals-to-go will be provided for the first 30 registrants.
