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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.
This began the shift in states eventually raising their ages to twenty-one due to the teenage vaping epidemic. [13] By 2019, eighteen states and the District of Columbia had their minimum purchase ages at twenty-one, thirty states had their ages at eighteen, and two had it at nineteen.
Mirabella McCall was just a freshman in high school when she first started vaping. When McCall decided to quit, she documented her journey on TikTok and YouTube. A recent study suggests that while ...
"The vaping industry is taking a page out of Big Tobacco's playbook: they're making nicotine seem cool, getting kids hooked, and creating a massive public health crisis in the process," James said ...
Scripps News spoke with drug control expert Jim Carroll about the marketing strategies used to target vape products to children.
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.
Many studies concluded e-cigarettes are an effective smoking cessation tool, but the long-term side effects of vaping have yet to be discovered. By late 2019, [54] the life-threatening 'vaping associated lung injury' syndrome was described, [55] it is a form of Lipoid pneumonia caused by black market e-liquids containing lipids. [56]