Charlotte McDonald
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483 appearances
11 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2012
last heard 11 Jun
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6 Minute English from bbclearningenglish.com
Hello and thanks for downloading the More or Less podcast.
With a programme that looks at the numbers in the news and in life and in nicotine.
I'm Charlotte MacDonald.
According to the World Health Organisation, smoking kills some 7 million people every year.
It's one of the world's leading causes of preventable death.
Because smoking causes lung cancer and other awful health conditions, many smokers switch to vaping, using nicotine-based e-cigarettes.
But the World Health Organisation is also concerned about vaping.
Last year, they said 100 million people around the world are now using e-cigarettes, including millions of children, and warned that they were fuelling a new wave of nicotine addiction.
But how do the health risks of these two means of getting nicotine into your bloodstream compare?
According to a recent article in the Daily Mail, they're basically the same.
Here's the headline.
But is that true?
Is vaping just as bad for you as smoking?
Tom Coles has been taking a look at this.
Hi, Tom.
Hello, Charlotte.
So we know more or less that smoking is one of the clearest examples of something that is unambiguously bad for you.
We know that it causes cancer, heart disease, strokes, you name it.
Before filling the stoop with a sickly sweet smell.
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