I am opposed to smoking – period. However, I understand that there are some people under the impression that smoking e-cigarettes is safer than tobacco cigarettes.
The recently released 2022 National Youth Tobacco Survey data show that 2.55 million adolescents use e-cigarettes and 27.6% of adolescents use e-cigarettes daily.
A new analysis published in JAMA Network Open by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in collaboration with a retired UCSF professor reveals ongoing and worsening adolescent e-cigarette addiction in the United States.
In the analysis of data from the annual National Youth Tobacco Survey, a nationally-representative survey of middle and high school students in grades 6–12, researchers found that e-cigarette prevalence among youth peaked in 2019 then declined, but e-cigarette initiation age dropped between 2014 and 2021,and intensity of use and addiction increased after the introduction of protonated nicotine products.
Protonated nicotine is created by adding acid to the e-cigarette liquid, which makes the nicotine easier to inhale. Since Juul pioneered protonated nicotine, it has been widely adopted by other e-cigarette companies.
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Thank you, Tony. I wish my adult daughter would stop smoking. Myother smoked for years and was able to stop after she had been in a hospital for two weeks (she was crossing the street and was hit by a car). She said she had no urge to smoke any more and quit. Good news for us all.
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Thanks for sharing.
Juul, with others to follow, marketed these products to our youth. They can argue about the how and why the product was developed, the cessation of smoking. I have no way of getting into anyone’s head.
But the advertising campaigns that took cues from tobacco in the 70s is undeniable.
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