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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Lauren Taylor

TikTok doctor warns truth about vaping won’t be seen for 20 or 30 years

AP

An NHS doctor is warning young people on TikTok that “history is repeating itself” with vaping and, just like smoking, the truth about the dangers will “take decades to come through”.

Dr Ahmed Ezzat – who posts under Dr Mish Mash – says: “Who would have thought that back in the 1920s to 1940s, doctors on every billboard were trying to promote smoking cigarettes, even claiming, with the tobacco companies, that smoking cigarettes cured or treated asthma and shortness of breath.

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