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Teen vaping is a problem that should be addressed, but taking kids out of their normal classes could cause unintended harm. It’s a classic case of sloppy legislating with unintended consequences.
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.
Local advocates say vaping is especially dangerous to teens, while opioids are also a big threat. Here's how they try to help kids kick the habit. Vaping and opioids are a serious threat to teens.
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.
Electronic cigarettes are marketed to smoking and non-smoking men, women, and children as being safer than cigarettes. [1] In the 2010s, large tobacco businesses accelerated their marketing spending on vape products, [2] [3] similar to the strategies traditional cigarette companies used in the 1950s and 1960s.
Vaping has slightly declined among teens. The use of e-cigarettes among high schoolers decreased from 14.1% to 10% from 2022 to 2023, the 2023 National Youth Tobacco Survey found. But for this ...
Experimenting with vaping encourages young people to continue smoking. [91] A 2015 study found minors had little resistance to buying e-cigarettes online. [92] Teenagers may not admit to using e-cigarettes, but use, for instance, a hookah pen. [93] As a result, self-reporting may be lower in surveys. [93]
The firsthand aerosol is harmful for many reasons: Most e-cigarettes (99%) contain nicotine (though many do not disclose it), which can harm the developing adolescent brain (that keeps developing ...