It’s no secret that many teenagers think it is cool to smoke. But over the last twenty years with campaigns from Truth and others targeting youth, many teenagers have stayed away from cigarettes. But with the advent of Vaping, studies have shown that many kids between the ages of 13 to 18 believe that vaping is much safer than smoking. In a recent article from Yale Medicine, the author noted that not only does vaping not help adults quit smoking which is what the original intention behind vaping was, but that it increases the risk a teen will smoke regular cigarettes when they get older. The article stated that: “The addiction to nicotine and later conversion to (or dual use with) regular cigarettes are the greatest concerns,” says Roy S. Herbst, MD, Yale Medicine’s chief of medical oncology at Yale Cancer Center. He points to two heavyweight organizations, the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and […] More

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