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hide. The health effects of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) include a range of potential risks such as exposure to toxic chemicals, the possibility of increased likelihood of respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, and concerns about their possible role in cancer development. Upon their introduction, there were marketing claims that they ...
Even though fewer teens are vaping, more are using nicotine ... The 2024 National Youth Tobacco Survey reported that 1.63 million school-age children had used e-cigarettes at least once in the ...
[3] There is concern that children may progress from vaping to smoking. [63] Adolescents are likely to underestimate nicotine's addictiveness. [210] Vulnerability to the brain-modifying effects of nicotine, along with youthful experimentation with e-cigarettes, could lead to a lifelong addiction. [94]
Vaping-associated pulmonary injury (VAPI), [4] also known as vaping-associated lung injury (VALI) [1] or e-cigarette, or vaping, product use associated lung injury (E/VALI), [2][a] is an umbrella term, [15][16] used to describe lung diseases associated with the use of vaping products that can be severe and life-threatening. [3]
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 ...
A report by Public Health Wales has said that vaping should be seen as a ‘dependency issue’ with children needing help to quit. Give children nicotine gum or patches to help quit vaping, say ...
Smoking among youth and adolescents is an issue that affects countries worldwide. While the extent to which smoking is viewed as a negative health behavior may vary across different nations, it remains an issue regardless of how it is perceived by different societies. The United States has taken numerous measures, ranging from changes in ...
A ban on vapes must be as strong as the one proposed for smoking, the Children’s Commissioner for England has said. Dame Rachel de Souza said “we need shop fronts cleared” of vapes and that ...