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#1 KNOW THIS WORD: DIACETYL Over the years, scientific words have become popularized, things like carcinogen, and caffeine, and metastasize. Brace yourself for a new one: Diacetyl. This word, diacetyl, is the short version of the alphadiketone, 2,3-pentanedione, which was first used as a flavoring agent in microwave popcorn. That was before the workers, who diligently punched in and out of the factory every day expertly filling those little tri-fold microwaveable bags with kernels and their secret sauce, started experiencing strange symptoms. They came on slowly, but, to this day, have not gone away: lethargy, shortness of breath, dry coughing, and wheezing. Diacetyl is no longer allowed as a flavoring agent for food, but the vape industry now uses it to create all of those innocent-sounding flavors, such as “Blueberry Cheesecake,” that our kids draw directly into their lungs. #2 WHAT IS POPCORN LUNG? The phenomenon, named for those microwave popcorn workers, put in its simplest terms, is the obliteration of the tiny blood vessels—alveoli— in our lungs that do the magic that happens when we unconsciously transfer the oxygen in the air into oxygen in our blood. And that word, obliteration, is appropriate, as the medical term for popcorn lung is bronchiolitis obliterans. Diagnosis is problematic because the symptoms appear slowly and do not present in the same way that traditional cigarette coughing— smokers hack—comes on with a clear cause and effect. In other words, “I smoked a bunch of Camels yesterday, and today I am coughing my brains out.” And, unlike cigarette smokers, where research shows that abstinence for a period of about seven years will clear the lungs, that is not the case for diacetyl exposure. There is no cure. The damage is permanent. #3 FAMILY JUULS Mention the word “jewel” in the presence of a high school teacher or administrator and watch their reaction. Their face will likely be a boiling stew of frustration, anger, and terror. Why so much baggage attached to such an innocent little word? That word, jewel, is also the trendy brand name for a tiny e-cigarette, or vaping pen, known as a JUUL. To the untrained eye, a JUUL appears identical to the ubiquitous thumb drive, those little, portable external hard drives that can plug into a computer’s USB port. Once used to transport essays and book reports from home to school, those little devices, thumb drives, are now mostly banned in high schools because teachers cannot tell the difference between the real thing and the e-cigs. Still, they are very easy to sneak onto campus, and unlike cigarette smoke that leaves a billowing cloud overhead, the effect of taking a hit on a vape pen is a very fast disappearing vapor. Ask any local high school kid, and they will tell you that they have witnessed their classmates smoking a JUUL in class, inhaling discretely the moment the teacher turns their back to write on the whiteboard. 74 | SLO LIFE MAGAZINE | OCT/NOV 2018
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