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When the surgeon general, in 2018, declared teen vaping an epidemic, one in five high school students reported having used e-cigarettes. Usage was increasing faster than for any previous substance.
A 2020 review stated "Initial case reports of vaping-related lung injury date back to 2012, but the ongoing outbreak of EVALI began in the summer of 2019..." [11] At least 19 cases of vaping-associated pulmonary injuries had been reported worldwide prior to 2019. [12] Similar cases were reported in the UK and Japan before the outbreak. [13]
Policies inspired by that exaggerated threat continue to undermine the harm-reducing potential of e-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.
Before coronavirus, pulmonologists, pediatricians and parents were busy battling a different nationwide health crisis: the “epidemic” of teen vaping. On Tuesday, researchers at the Stanford ...
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Yet, teen vaping rates appeared to fall by about 40% in 2020, as many were going to school remotely, according to a 2021 CDC survey, which was conducted online for the first time.
While anti-tobacco watchdogs applaud the drop in teen vaping, they still fret about kids who frequently use these devices. Among teens who vape, 42% of high school users and 27% of middle school ...