關於電子煙垃圾的研究引人擔憂
study raises concern about e-cigarette waste
關於電子煙垃圾的研究引人擔憂
Nearly two years ago, Jeremiah Mock heard a student in Marin County, California, complain that her school was littered with e-cigarette waste. A health anthropologist by training, Mock did some investigating in a student parking lot, where he found a significant amount of e-cigarette and tobacco trash.
大約兩年前，耶利米·莫克（Jeremiah Mock）聽到加州馬林縣的一名學生抱怨說學校到處都是電子煙垃圾。作爲一名受過培訓的健康人類學家，莫克在一個學生停車場進行了調查，並在那裏發現了大量的電子煙和菸草垃圾。
Surprised, Mock went further.
莫克感到非常驚訝，並選擇開展進一步調查。
From July 2018 through April 2019, he and a colleague, Yogi Hendlin, collected tobacco, cannabis and e-cigarette waste from 12 public high school parking lots across the San Francisco Bay Area. They discovered that e-cigarette waste made up 19 percent of that recovered litter — trash that a mere a decade ago would scarcely have existed on high school campuses anywhere.
從2018年7月至2019年4月，莫克和他的一名同事（尤吉·翰德林（Yogi Hendlin））一直在舊金山灣區的12所公立高中停車場收集菸草、大麻和電子煙垃圾。他們發現：電子煙垃圾佔回收垃圾的19%——而在十年前的高中校園，你幾乎看不到這種垃圾。
As media coverage focuses on the more immediate public health crisis of vaping, and its link to a recent spate of mysterious lung illnesses and deaths, researchers like Mock and Hendlin caution there also is a looming environmental threat.
媒體的相關報道更注重電子煙帶來的公共衛生危機，及其與近期突發的肺部疾病和死亡之間的聯繫，但莫克和翰德林這樣的研究人員卻警告大家：電子煙造成的環境威脅也迫在眉睫。
Little research has been done on the impact of e-cigarette waste, which consists of microplastics, metals, nicotine and combustible lithium ion batteries. In fact, Mock and Hendlin’s garbology study, published earlier this month, is the first to systematically catalog e-cigarette trash.
關於電子煙垃圾（由微塑料、金屬、尼古丁和可燃鋰離子電池組成）影響的研究相對較少。事實上，默克和翰德林於本月初發表的垃圾學研究是首個系統地進行電子煙垃圾分類的研究。
"I would say it’s alarming," said Mock, an associate professor at the University of California, San Francisco, and a member of the school's Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education. Hendlin is a UCSF research associate.
加州大學舊金山分校的副教授兼該校菸草控制研究與教育中心的成員莫克說：“我覺得研究結果令人震驚。”翰德林是加州大學舊金山分校的一名研究助理
The FDA reports that 20.8 percent of high school students use vaping devices, and recent surveys indicate that use is growing even among children in middle school. Flavored e-cigarettes, which are especially popular among teenagers, are now the target of bans in eight states, according to the advocacy group Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids.
美國食品與藥品監管局的報告指出，20.8%的高中生使用電子煙設備，近期的調查表明，使用該設備的人數正在增加，用戶甚至包括初中生。調味電子煙尤爲受青少年的歡迎。根據無煙兒童運動倡導組織表示，目前，美國已有八個州嚴令禁止調味電子煙。
Many teens and adults have fallen victim to a growing public health crisis involving vaping products. Earlier this month, a 17-year-old from New York became the first teenager to die of a mysterious vaping-related illness that has killed 33 people and sickened nearly 1,500 across every state except Alaska, according to the CDC.
許多青少年和成年人已成爲電子煙產品帶來的公共健康危機的受害者。美國疾控中心表示，本月初，紐約的一名17歲青少年因爲與電子煙相關的疾病離世（首例），而該疾病目前已致死33人，且除阿拉斯加州以外，其它每個州都有近1500人患病。
