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Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2020 3:42 am Post subject: Quick Facts on the Risks of E-cigarettes for Kids, Teens, an |
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What’s the Bottom Line on the Risks of E-cigarettes for Kids, Teens, and Young Adults?
The use of e-cigarettes is unsafe for kids, teens, and young adults.
Most e-cigarettes contain nicotine. Nicotine is highly addictive and can harm adolescent brain development, which continues into the early to mid-20s.1
E-cigarettes can contain other harmful substances besides nicotine.
Young people who use e-cigarettes may be more likely to smoke cigarettes in the future.
A young diverse group of teenagers.
The use of e-cigarettes is unsafe for kids, teens, and young adults.
Outbreak of Lung Injury Associated with the Use of E-Cigarette, or Vaping, Products
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What Are E-cigarettes?
E-cigarettes are electronic devices that heat a liquid and produce an aerosol, or mix of small particles in the air.
E-cigarettes come in many shapes and sizes. Most have a battery, a heating element, and a place to hold a liquid.
Some e-cigarettes look like regular cigarettes, cigars, or pipes. Some look like USB flash drives, pens, and other everyday items. Larger devices such as tank systems, or “mods,” do not look like other tobacco products.
E-cigarettes are known by many different names. They are sometimes called “e-cigs,” “e-hookahs,” “mods,” “vape pens,” “vapes,” “tank systems,” and “electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS).”
Using an e-cigarette is sometimes called “vaping.”
Images of a E-pipe, E-cigar, large-size tank devices, medium-size tank devices, rechargeable e-cigarette, and a disposable e-cigarette.
Some e-cigarettes look like regular cigarettes, cigars, or pipes.
Some look like USB flash drives, pens, and other everyday items.
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What Are E-cigarettes?
How Do E-cigarettes Work?
What Is JUUL?
Why Is Nicotine Unsafe for Kids, Teens, and Young Adults?
What Are the Other Risks of E-cigarettes for Kids, Teens, and Young Adults?
What Is in E-cigarette Aerosol?
Flavors and Marketing Make E-cigarettes Appealing to Youth
Can Using E-cigarettes Lead to Future Cigarette Smoking Among Kids, Teens, and Young Adults?
Aren’t E-cigarettes Safer Than Cigarettes?
Are E-cigarettes Regulated at the Federal Level?
Are There Any National Public Education Prevention Campaigns Focused on Youth and E-cigarettes?
What Do We Know About Heated Tobacco Products?
What Can I Do to Prevent My Child from Using E-cigarettes or to Help Them Stop?
Where Can I Learn More?
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Multimedia about E-cigarettes
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How Do E-cigarettes Work?
E-cigarettes produce an aerosol by heating a liquid that usually contains nicotine, flavorings, and other chemicals that help to make the aerosol.
The liquid used in e-cigarettes often contains nicotine and flavorings. This liquid is sometimes called “e-juice,” “e-liquid,” “vape juice,” or “vape liquid.”
Users inhale e-cigarette aerosol into their lungs. Bystanders can also breathe in this aerosol when the user exhales it into the air.
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