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Anchor lead:  Why are e-cigarettes so dangerous for young people? Elizabeth Tracey reports E-cigarettes are the most commonly used tobacco product among American teenagers, and their use is growing enormously, the US Surgeon General reported recently.  Yet vaping must be …

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Anchor lead:  What are the implications of the recent Surgeon General’s report on e-cigarette use among US youth? Elizabeth Tracey reports Teenagers in the US use e-cigarettes in a practice known as vaping much more often than they smoke traditional …

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Anchor lead:  What do proteins that are the wrong shape have to do with Parkinson’s disease? Elizabeth Tracey reports Proteins are the body’s currency, used as building blocks, messengers, and a host of other functions, but they must be properly …

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