Among the challenges facing Juul are a reported criminal probe from federal prosecutors in California and questions about the safety of vaping, which prompted Massachusetts on Tuesday toplace a temporary banon all vaping products. Following the shakeup at Juul, the largest U.S. seller of e-cigare...
Vaping may be safer than smoking cigarettes, but that is not an endorsement. We know that other countries have banned vaping devices due to the risks they pose. States have begun to introduce legislation increasing the legal age of use or banning use altogether. Science has established that the...
Rayyan VaidKarachi Medical and Dental College, Karachi, PakistanRabia QaderKarachi Medical and Dental College, Karachi, PakistanAreeba FareedKarachi Medical and Dental College, Karachi, PakistanSAGE PublicationsAsia Pacific Journal of Public Health
Smoking can cause adverse health problems in children. One of the most dangerous problems is nicotine addiction. And this often leads to long-term use of tobacco as the children get older. Research has also shown that nicotine harms brain development, especially that of children and teens. It’...
Educate yourself and your teen on the harm of tobacco products. Set a good example by not smoking or using tobacco. If you currently smoke,quit.16 If you catch your teen smoking or vaping, avoid threats and ultimatums, and instead talk with them to find out why they are using nicotine ...
Though their intentions were significantly altered after learning about possible health effects, the video "intervention" wasn't associated with the same reduction in vaping. Even if they wanted to stop or reduce vaping, use was up and down over the course of the study, though it did drop ove...
Ratch is also not the only Zyn user to have started as a teen. According to theof 2023, an estimated 1.5% of high school and middle school students (more than half of them boys), representing 400,000 adolescents, use nicotine pouches—around the same percentage (1.6%) who smoke cigarette...
“People misunderstand the concept of safety versussafer.” The study authors point out a big limitation with their own study: the data stop at 2017, which is before the massive spike in teen e-cigarette use that prompted the US Surgeon General tocall teen vaping an “epid...
“Everyone does it, but noone will talk about it,” agrees a prominent jewelry designer, who will speak only on the condition of not having her name in print. Such skittishness could easily be interpreted as tacit acknowledgment of the inherent tackiness of vaping, which ...
England has an example of a website—Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)—that gets it right on vaping, the researchers said. Abriefingposted on the site specifically states: "Compared to tobacco products, electronic cigarettes are significantly safer." ...