Dr. Lasse recommends parents check-in and have an open dialogue with their kids before they're hooked. "They are experiencing withdrawal from nicotine the same way that you would expect from a person who had been smoking for five years, ten years..." VapingHealth ...
Kids and teens were more likely to use vapes in 2024 than other tobacco products with 3.5 percents of middle schoolers and 7.8 percent of high schoolers vaping. Over 86 percent of these students reported using flavored vapes, over 55 percent used disposable vapes, and over 30 percent reported...
“As long as any flavored e-cigarettes are left on the market, kids will get their hands on them and we will not solve this crisis,” Matt Myers of the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids said in a statement. The national survey is conducted at schools each year by the Centers for Disease ...
Also, some kids may have been scared off by an outbreak of vaping-related illnesses and deaths; most were tied to a filler in black market vaping liquids that contained THC, the chemical in marijuana that makes users feel high. For months, tobacco experts have speculated about th...
With the rapid increase of e-cigarette or vaping use in adolescents, parents can provide unique perspectives to assist in addressing this issue. As research regarding parent experiences of adolescent vaping is generally limited, this study therefore explored parent: (i) perceptions regarding adolescent...
Then Big Vape landed hard going after our kids, and I knew I had to do something. Today millions of teens vape in the US. All in, more than 15 million Americans vape. Some estimates put it closer to 30 million. All are addicted to nicotine, the addicting ingredient in vape, that mak...
Massachusetts has “the worst civil forfeiture laws in the country.” It looks like state legislators are about to outdo themselves. The Massachusetts House of Representatives…approved a bill that would ban flavored e-cigarettes, impose a 75 percent excise tax on “electronic nicotine delivery syst...
House Democrats recently began investigating e-cigarette leader Juul Labs and its marketing strategies to children to young adults. In 2018, U.S. Surgeon General Vice Adm. Jerome M. Adams, called e-cigarette use an epidemic among youth, stating, “We need to protect our kids from all tobac...
It was high school kids who drove the change, according to theNational Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS), with middle schoolers stillvapingat rates roughly similar to a year ago. Still, any reduction in vaping is welcome, saidBrian King, director of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Cen...
Overall, the survey showed a drop of nearly 40% in the teen vaping rate as many kids were forced to learn from home during the pandemic. Still, federal officials cautioned about interpreting the results given they were collected online for the first time, instead of in classrooms. ...