Adapted from BMJ 12 Oct 2024
When vaping started out, it was seen as a heathier way to help people stop harmful cigarette smoking. In addition, the cost was dramatically less. Since then, it has attracted a new population, the never smokers.
Now about a million adults in England alone use vapes despite never having regularly smoked cigarettes. There are also worrying reports about children and adolescents using them.
Vaping rates in non-smokers were pretty stable from 2016 to 2020, with around one person in 200 smoking them. But after disposable vapes came on the market this has increased seven fold, and now 1 in 28 non-smoking adults use them regularly.
To start with, vapes seem to have no real downside, but increasingly, severe addiction and lung problems are seen to develop.
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In an age of technology and carrying devices, vapes seem to be the natural evolution of “prehistoric” cigarette and cigar and pipe smoking. I’m not surprised by the use of vapes by people who have never smoked, especially with the use of flavoured and coloured products. Nothing good can come from this.
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