Vaping More for Flavor Than Nicotine in Teen Use

“No Vaping” by Mike Mozart is licensed under CC BY 2.0. In 2014, The Oxford Dictionaries gave the word “vape” the Word of the Year title. The use of e-cigarettes, also known as “vapes,” have been on the rise and were often wrongly recognized as a safer alternative to smoking. The U.S. Food & Drug Administration recently put several regulations into effect regarding e-cigarettes and are warning users that this is not a safer smoking alternative. A recent study conducted by a team at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research found that out of the 15,000 students they surveyed, 3,800 of them had used an e-cigarette at some time. However, researchers also discovered something else: two thirds of the student users used an e-cigarette when a non-nicotine flavored ingredient was used. Using nicotine-flavored vapes came in a distant second. “The findings suggest that efforts to reduce e-cigarette use among young people may fail if they focus on the dangers of nicotine because most teen users do not believe they are using nicotine, according to the researchers,” MedlinePlus reported. To read more about the study, please visit “Many Teens ‘Vaping’ for Flavor, Not Nicotine.” Follow NN/LM SCR on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
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