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How vaping primes the lungs for COVID damage.
The Conversation; 2025.
https://theconversation.com/how-vaping-primes-the-lungs-for-covid-damage-266162
[Both vaping and COVID drive inflammation. Vaping irritates and inflames the blood-vessel lining while COVID floods the lungs with pro-inflammatory molecules. Together they create a “perfect storm”: capillaries become leaky, fluid seeps into the air sacs and oxygen struggles to cross the blood–air barrier. COVID also raises the risk of blood clots in the lung’s vessels, while vaping has been linked to the same, compounding the danger.]
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