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FIRST AT FIVE...THEY ARE NUMBERS THAT SHOULD GET THE

ATTENTION OF EVERY PARENT.

MORE THAN 3 MILLION MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

ARE USING E-CIGARETTES - THAT ACCORDING TO THE F-D-A.

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BUT WHAT ARE THE POTENTIAL HEALTH RISKS ASSOCIATED

WITH E-CIGARETTES - OR VAPING.

DAVE DELOZIER HAS THE STORY OF A LAND MARK STUDY INTO

VAPING BEING DONE BY THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN.

when i started vaping, i mean really you felt like

nothing was wrong.

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HE STARTED AS A FRESHMAN IN HIGH SCHOOL.

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you know when you're smoking and when you're vaping

you really don't know.

you really don't know what's going on in your body

fully.

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HE'S ABOUT TO FIND OUT.

JONATHAN IS ONE OF 300 PARTICIPANTS IN THE EXHALE

STUDY.

IT IS A FIVE YEAR - 3.7 MILLION DOLLAR STUDY BEING

CONDUCTED BY THE U-W CENTER FOR TOBACCO RESEARCH AND

INTERVENTION.

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in this study we're following people over a span of

two years and so we're really interested to see what

happens.

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THE RESEARCH WILL LOOK AT THE FREQUENCY AND PATTERN

OF USE BY PARTICIPANTS.

IT WILL ALSO MONITOR THE CARBON MONOXIDE IN THE INDIVIDUALS

SYSTEM.

BUT PERHAPS THE GREATEST FOCUS WILL BE ON THE IMPACT

VAPING HAS ON LUNG FUNCTION.

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and there's one we don't really know.

we know smoking traditional cigarettes in the long

term is very harmful to people's lungs.

you can track that over time.

we really don't know much about that in terms of vaping.

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THE HOPE IS THAT BY TESTING LUNG FUNCTION BEFORE AND

AFTER VAPING - AND OVER THE COURSE OF TWO YEARS -

A CLEARER PICTURE WILL EMERGE ABOUT VAPING.

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absolutely, just having knowledge about some of the

affects of vaping, be they positive or negative.

we don't have any assumptions about that going in.

AND IT WILL FINALLY LET INDIVIDUALS LIKE JONATHAN

KNOW - WHAT HEALTH RISKS VAPING DOES - OR DOESN'T

POSE.

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good deal.

IN MADISON, THIS IS DAVE DELOZIER, WISC, NEWS 3.

SUSAN --

THE 3 POINT 7 MILLION DOLLAR STUDY IS BEING FUNDED

BY THE NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE AND THE F-D-A.

THE RESULTS OF THE STUDY WILL HELP AGENCIES DETERMINE

FUTURE REGULATIONS FOR VAPING.