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This is learning English from the news, our podcast about the news headlines In this program, is vaping as bad as smoking cigarettes?

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new study suggests it might be.

Hello, I'm Beth, and I'ml In

this program, we look at one big news story and the vocabulary in the headlines that will help you understand it.

You can find all the vocabulary and headlines from this episode, as well as a works on our website, bbc learning english dot com.

So let's hear more about the story.

Information from a new study by Manchester Metropolitan University, which will be published soon, has found that e cigarettes and vapes are just as bad for health as cigarettes.

Researchers gave volunteers fitness tests, which measured things like blood flow to their brains.

Results show that long term uses of vapes and e cigarettes are equally at risk of dementia, heart disease and organ failure as regular cigarette smokers.

This is because of damage to archery walls and reduced blood flow.

Let's have our 1st headline. This is from the mail online Vaping more dangerous than smoking bombshell.

1st of its kind study reveals it raises risk of three deadly diseases.

And that headline again from the mail online Vaping more dangerous than smoking bomb shell 1st of its kind study reveals it raises risk of three deadly diseases.

So this headline is about the results of this study on bathing.

Vaping is inhaling an e liquid that contains nicotine and often has different flavors.

We're interested, though, in the word bomb shell from this headline, which sounds very dramatic.

Beth, what does it mean? Well, it is dramatic.

So if you think about a literal bomb, it blows things up, causes an explosion.

And it's not usually something good.

Now here, bombshell is used metaphorically, and it means sudden, shocking and often bad news.

This report is a bomb shell for people who vap, according to this headline.

Now, bomb shell is commonly seen as a noun, but in this headline, it's used as an adjective A bomb shell study.

So it means the study has revealed bad news, yes, and that's bad news for people who rape, because the study reveals that vaping increases the risk of three diseases.

You'll often hear the word bomb shall use in the news, e.g.

you might see a headline such as, celebrity Reveals secrets in bombshell interview.

It means something really shocking is about to come out.

And note that we often use the noun bomb shell with the verb drop.

E.g., I could say my sister dropped a bomb shell last night, she told us she's lost her job.

We've had bombshell describes sudden, often bad news, e.g.

the companies bomb shall Email announced huge job losses.

This is learning English from the news.

Our podcast about the news headlines.

Today, we're talking about a new study into the health effects of vaping.

53% of current vapors in the UK, that's around 3 million people, used to smoke cigarettes.

Many people have moved to vaping because they believe it's less harmful than smoking the UK.

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