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Representatives of the Vapor Technology Assn., a trade group for the e-cigarette industry, and Consumer Advocates for Smoke-free Alternatives Assn., which supports vaping, did not respond ...
Aug. 23—After years of climbing rates of New Mexico teens taking up vaping, those numbers are finally going down. In the place of e-cigarettes, however, New Mexico Department of Health officials ...
Teen vaping is a problem that should be addressed, but taking kids out of their normal classes could cause unintended harm. ... Sending schoolchildren to a disciplinary alternative education ...
This phenomenon is also known as vaping but has many other names as well. [40] In 2020, it was estimated that approximately 1.3 million children in the United States smoke. [ 41 ] For the first time in 2014, e-cigarette use was higher among adolescents than smoking traditional cigarettes.
Youth vaping levels fell to the lowest in a decade this year, according to a new CDC and FDA report. Rates are one-third of the 2019 peak.
A 2019 review found "Vaping has been promoted as a beneficial smoking cessation tool and an alternative nicotine delivery device that contains no combustion by-products. However, nicotine is highly addictive, and the increased use of nicotine-containing e-cigarettes among teens and individuals who are not in need of smoking cessation may lead ...
The scientific community in the United States and Europe are primarily concerned with the possible effect of electronic cigarette use on public health. [1] There is concern among public health experts that e-cigarettes could renormalize smoking, weaken measures to control tobacco, [2] and serve as a gateway for smoking among youth. [3]
When the surgeon general, in 2018, declared teen vaping an epidemic, one in five high school students reported having used e-cigarettes. Usage was increasing faster than for any previous substance.