Is vaping bad for you?

The uptick in vaping among teenagers dominated headlines before the pandemic. 2 Wants to Know looked into what's happened in the crisis over the last 18 months.

In Greensboro, Cone Health says vaping killed one of their patients in 2019. Doctor Murali Ramswamy treated that person.

"This is tragic, and so we are still understanding and trying to understand why patients are dying from vaping," he said back in 2019.

Since then, the research on vaping has gotten less cloudy. We talked with four of the nation's leading health experts on vaping.

All of them had the same message:

"Yes e-cigarettes are dangerous," said Jennifer Lawson with the American Heart Association.

"Vaping is dangerous," said Gary Salzman with the University of Missouri - Kansas City.

"E-cigarettes can have a negative impact on the cardiovascular system," Mount Sinai's Neel Patel said.

"Absolutely," the Mayo Clinic's Graham King responded when asked if vapes were dangerous.

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