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Speaker 1: Now a study out of Australia suggests vaping causes lung

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Speaker 1: and mouth cancer, and this study is getting slammed by

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Speaker 1: the experts. Robert beagelhol is an emeritus professor in public

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Speaker 1: health and a former director for the World Health Organization

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Speaker 1: and with US.

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Speaker 2: High Robert, good Evening, Heaven.

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Speaker 1: Do you also have a problem with this study.

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Speaker 2: I think this is an appalling study, Heather. It is misleading.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't compare vapors with smokers. It detects very low

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Speaker 2: levels of potentially dangerous substances. But of course what is

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Speaker 2: important is how concentrated, how much of these substances are

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Speaker 2: in the vapes. Vapes as we know it, are much

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Speaker 2: much less harmful than cigarettes. They help people stop. We

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Speaker 2: need to be encouraging them, not misleading them.

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Speaker 1: The point that has been made by these researcher is

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Speaker 1: that there is that there's been no comparison studies between

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Speaker 1: vaping and segge smoking. Is that correct.

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Speaker 2: And no, absolutely that is in correct. There are a

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Speaker 2: lot of comparisons of the toxic ingredients in cigarette smoke

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Speaker 2: and in vape aerosols, and without question, the smoke is

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Speaker 2: much much dangerous, more dangerous from cigarettes than from aerosols,

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Speaker 2: no question.

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Speaker 1: So what is going on here that's like, is there

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Speaker 1: an appetite? Are we sort of primed to want to

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Speaker 1: find out that vaping is worse than it actually is?

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Speaker 1: Because I'm just trying to understand why a study like

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Speaker 1: this is getting all of this attention.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's a misleading study. It's sensational. Something causes cancer,

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Speaker 2: it gets the headlines. I mean, eating drinking apple juice

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Speaker 2: is associated with cancer. People who drink orange juice get cancer.

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Speaker 2: It's not because of the orange juice, because of the

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Speaker 2: other factors going on. There's no question that there's a

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Speaker 2: beat up against vpes and that is misleading and I

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Speaker 2: would say irresponsible and potentially harmful to an adult who

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Speaker 2: work up this morning thinking well maybe this is the

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Speaker 2: day I'm going to go to vapes. They see this

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Speaker 2: study headlined, they say, why would I go to vapes

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Speaker 2: if some Australian is telling me that it's causing cancer

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Speaker 2: it's dangerous?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, fair enough, Robert, thank you very much, really appreciate

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Speaker 1: your time. It's Robert, Professor Robert beegelhol Emeritus Professor in

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