After vaping or smoking, people who used these nicotine-containing products also experienced greater constriction of the brachial artery and worse measures of heart rate variability, indicating the activation of the bodys sympathetic nervous system
Electronic cigarette use, related health outcomes and policy interventions in the USA: a call for research to fill evidence gaps
Further narrowing the tobacco tax baseThe tax base is the total amount of income, property, assets, consumption, transactions, or other economic activity subject to taxation by a tax authority
This tax is imposed to raise revenue and discourage smoking by significantly increasing the retail price
Meet the experts: Reza Ronaghi , MD, is a pulmonologist at UCLA Health