A new study is looking at nicotine vaping and its long-term effects on our lungs. It's underway at six academic hospital centres across the country. Laura Struik is one of the researchers involved in the Okanagan and tells us about the study.

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A new Canadian study, known as the CLOUD study, is examining the long-term effects of nicotine vaping on lung health across six academic hospital centres. Led by researchers including Laura Struik from UBC Okanagan, the study will follow participants over five years to assess how vaping impacts lung function and overall health.

Preliminary evidence indicates that e-cigarettes may not be much less harmful than traditional cigarettes, and using both products together can be even more detrimental. The study also highlights concerns about the impact of nicotine on the developing brains of young people, with risks including impaired mood regulation, decision-making, and memory.

The long-term effects of vaping on lungs

A new study is looking at nicotine vaping and the long-term effects on your lungs. It's underway at six academic hospital centres across the country. Laura Struik is one of the researchers involved in the Okanagan. She's an associate professor at UBCO's Faculty of Health and Social Development. She specializes in youth health promotion and tobacco control. Tobacco companies have promoted vaping as a safer alternative to smoking cigarettes, but there are questions about their long-term safety. Laura, first of all, can you tell us a bit more about the study? It's called the CLOUD study. What are you hoping to find out? Yes, that's right. And CLOUD, it stands for the Canadian Lung Outcomes in Users of Vaping Devices study. And what we're doing is we are looking at studying how vaping is impacting the lungs from a longitudinal perspective. So what that means is we're looking at it, looking at how vaping is affecting the lungs over the long term. So over several years. So five to be exact with regards to this study. Now, let's talk a little bit about how young people are often targeted and what makes them, for example, so susceptible to vaping products. Yeah. So as with any nicotine product, the average age of initiation is very young. It's between 12 and 18. So why is it? Why is this the case? Well, when you think about the natural brain development of a young person, especially in those teenage years, they are in a developmental stage where they have a propensity towards curiosity, towards experimentation and towards identity development. And so anything that appeals to a youth's curiosity or is presenting them as something that will serve as a social coagulator or something that will encourage them to experiment is going to draw them into those products. And the tobacco industry knows this. They have a long history of purposefully targeting this brain development within adolescence by using things like exciting and delicious flavors and very appealing visuals. Some of these vaping devices that are out there are now using screens where people can play games on them. And then also using high nicotine concentrations in order to give them that high that it ultimately makes these devices quite addictive. The study is ongoing, but at this point, do we have any indication of some of the health effects that vaping has on people's lungs? Yes, we are hoping to tap into what those long-term effects are. There is some already preliminary evidence within the literature indicating that e-cigarettes are actually not that much less harmful than cigarettes. And we also know that using e-cigarettes and cigarettes together, so that's called dual use, is even more harmful than smoking alone. We also know that nicotine is very detrimental, especially to the developing brain. So our brains are developing up until the age of 25. And when the brain is exposed to nicotine before the age of 25, it interferes with the ability to regulate your mood, to make decisions, to be coordinated, to retain memories, all these things that young people need in order to excel at what they love and overcome challenges. And so that's very concerning. Laura Struik is one of the researchers with the cloud study and an associate professor at UBCO in Kelowna. We appreciate your time. Thanks very much. Thank you.

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