Photo courtesy of Mary Margaret Davis At first, the doctors said it was pneumonia. On the way back from the hospital two days before her death, my mother groaned between coughs, “I’m never smoking again; I’m throwing out all of my e-cigarettes and weed pens.” This was a groundbreaking statement from my mother, who, like many, had embraced vaping as an alternative to … [Read more...] about Breath is Precious: The Vaping Disease Killed My Mother
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Where There’s Smoke, There’s Vaping?: JUULs Usher in a New Age of Nicotine
Photos by Milan Loiacono "I’m definitely addicted,” Pepperdine senior Griffin Duvall said. “Mentally and chemically.” Duvall said he began smoking cigarettes during his sophomore year, while he was abroad in Florence, Italy. “I feel like everyone did,” Duvall said. “People try it because it's the culture.” After Duvall returned from Italy, he had a talk with his … [Read more...] about Where There’s Smoke, There’s Vaping?: JUULs Usher in a New Age of Nicotine
