Most Teens Are Unaware That Vaping is Addictive

Vaping is causing a staggering number of adolescents to become nicotine-addicted without their knowing it is doing so

Tuesday, January 14, 2020 - The statistics that recently published on teen vape nicotine addiction are stunning, frightening and to be honest, sickening. At a time when the best the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) can do is ban the sale of non-menthol and regular e-cigarette flavors called "e-juices," young adults including minors are getting hooked on vape nicotine like never before. According to the Washington Post, the rate of vaping among 12-18 year-olds almost doubled last year and will probably double again in 2020. "Data from the 2019 National Youth Tobacco Survey shows that about 5 million young people in grades six to 12 had tried e-cigarettes in the past 30 days - an increase from about 3.6 million in 2018. And more of these teens are becoming regular users, with nearly 1 million vaping daily." Because nicotine addiction is instantaneous and permanent, these numbers add up to nothing less than a national health crisis and the Trump Administration with its business-first attitude of deregulation is asleep at the regulatory switch. The best the current administration is willing to do is to increase the age of smoking or vaping to 21 years old, a move that may not have any impact at all on youth vaping. Juul vape dangers include child nicotine addiction, seizures, popcorn lung and other possible health risks national attorneys representing families and people harmed from Juul Vape pen use.

Youngsters today communicate in a stealthy world of their own and beyond the scope of most adult's awareness. E-cigarette advertising bypasses traditional advertising on television, newspapers, and magazines, and is happening under the adult radar on popular social media websites like YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and Reddit websites. The FDA's ban of flavored vape cartridges will have no impact at all on teenagers who will continue to buy their favorite brand of "e-juice" online where an unlimited supply of vape products and flavors is at the tip of their fingers. Juul Inc. and others have marketed E-cigarettes to underage youngsters and teenagers as being harmless and safe all the while they have been ingesting doses of nicotine that can exceed smoking a Marlboro cigarette. Children are easily hooked on e-cigarettes because Juul has added a chemical that eliminates the "kick" of inhaling combustible cigarette smoke for the first time, eliminating the pain, dizziness, lightheadedness, headache, nausea and other physically sickening effects one experiences when they first try to smoke. Flavor vaping also can add a scent to the room much like the smell of burning incense or it can be concealed and odor-free.

It seems like the only solution to the Vape crisis is banning vaping completely, but that is not likely to happen as there is a legion of adult cigarettes smokers who have made the switch from smoking cigarettes to vaping and sing the praises of the device, doing so without giving the slightest consideration to the millions of young adults and children that have become addicted to nicotine by the device. Vape pens are small enough to be concealed in the palm of one's hand and teenagers brag about "ripping" on their vapes throughout the school day and some as blatantly as when the teacher's back is turned. There is a good probability that teenage nicotine addiction will increase to over 10 million youngsters by 2021 if Washington does not do something and vaping is not banned in its entirety.

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