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Volusia Schools adopted stricter vaping policies for this year. But why are students using e-cigarettes? And what makes them a risk?
The percentage who have ever tried vaping has also risen, from 14% in 2020 to 16% in 2022. In 2013, just 3% of children aged 11 to 15 had ever vaped, but this rose to 8% in 2020 and 10% in 2022.
Scripps News spoke with drug control expert Jim Carroll about the marketing strategies used to target vape products to children.
Critics of vaping bans state that vaping is a much safer alternative to smoking tobacco products and that vaping bans incentivize people to return to smoking cigarettes. [336] For example, critics cite the British Journal of Family Medicine in August 2015 which stated, "E-cigarettes are 95% safer than traditional smoking."
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.
The rise in vaping is of great concern because the parts encompassing in greater cognitive activities including the prefrontal cortex of the brain continues to develop into the 20s. [1] Nicotine exposure during brain development may hamper growth of neurons and brain circuits, effecting brain architecture, chemistry, and neurobehavioral activity.
Counseling Schools used Centers for Disease Control survey data to track teen tobacco and vaping use in the U.S., on a downward trend in schools.
A 2018 review states that "The recent advent of 'vitamin vaping' and aggressive marketing by some e-cigarette companies that claim that vaping e-cigarettes containing a variety of vitamins (vitamins A, B12, C, and D) is worrying as at this current time, clinically determining the concentration of any given vitamin that is systemically absorbed ...