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        "id": 2054094,
        "msgid": "vaping-can-cause-lung-injury-1792903862",
        "date": "2026-10-25 11:05:10",
        "title": "Vaping Can Cause Lung Injury",
        "author": "",
        "source": "ANTARA_ID",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Social Policy",
        "summary": "An Indonesian lung specialist has warned that e-cigarettes can harm health, including causing e-cigarette or vaping-associated lung injury (EVALI), and may pose greater risks if drugs such as etomidate are added. He backed the National Narcotics Agency\u2019s call for a ban, as the agency urges the government to accelerate regulations prohibiting e-cigarettes to protect the public, particularly young people.",
        "content": "<p>Jakarta (ANTARA) \u2013 Professor Tjandra Yoga Aditama, chairman of the\nHonorary Council of the Indonesian Pulmonologists Association (PDPI),\nhas warned that e-cigarette use, or vaping, can have harmful health\neffects, including lung injury.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe WHO says that vaping itself has adverse effects on health\nbecause it contains nicotine (even products said to contain no nicotine\nhave been found to contain it), toxic substances and flavourings,\u201d\nTjandra said in a written statement received in Jakarta on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>He said one harmful effect of vaping on lung health is \u201ce-cigarette\nor vaping-associated lung injury\u201d (EVALI), as described by the United\nStates Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf drugs such as etomidate are added to vape products, the health\nrisks will of course be even greater,\u201d said Tjandra, an honorary\nprofessor at Griffith University.<\/p>\n<p>Tjandra said a publication by the WHO\u2019s Western Pacific Regional\nOffice (WPRO) recorded that 12 countries had banned the sale of\ne-cigarettes. Around 35 countries worldwide have banned electronic\nnicotine delivery systems (ENDS), he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe strongly support the National Narcotics Agency\u2019s (BNN) position\nbanning the use of vapes (e-cigarettes), because they could become a\nmeans of narcotics abuse,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The BNN had previously said that the distribution of narcotics\nthrough vape products posed a real threat to young people and needed to\nbe stopped immediately.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor this reason, the BNN is pushing for regulations banning\ne-cigarettes to be issued more quickly, as a concrete measure to protect\nthe public,\u201d BNN Chief Secretary Inspector-General of Police Asep\nSaepudin said in Bandar Lampung on Monday.<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/vaping-can-cause-lung-injury-1792903862",
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