As part of a new campaign to encourage smokers to quit, Public Health England (PHE) released a video showing the effects of one month of smoking and vaping on two separate groups of cotton balls
He warned that the liquid in some vapes contains nicotine and other harmful substances also found in cigarettes, meaning that while vaping is safer than smoking it's not risk-free
Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD Ng M, Freeman MK, Fleming TD et al (2014) Smoking prevalence and cigarette consumption in 187 countries, 1980-2012
The proceeds of drug sales are either laundered or smuggled back to Mexico where the money is used to pay off border officials, law enforcement, security forces, and public officials to either ignore drug trafficking activities or to actively support and protect them