“Recruiting a 12-year-old into this is a really good business model because they’ll become dependent on it, need to buy it every day, and that becomes their consumer,” she says. Young people have the potential to turn into lucrative long-term vaping customers, argues Prof Renee Bittoun – a tobacco treatment specialist at Avondale University and the University of Notre Dame.
Teenagers like Ben – their young brains, bodies and lungs still developing – can become dependent incredibly quickly once the chemical has sunk its claws in them. “I think we would have had a completely nicotine-free generation if vapes weren’t invented.” From the lungs to blood to brain He says there’s no health benefit from taking nicotine. He’s seen the public health ads talking about the hazardous chemicals in vape liquid.īut still Ben can’t stop vaping. He knows about “popcorn lung” – a scarring of the lungs associated with the chemical diacetyl, which used to be found in commercial popcorn brands and has been found in some vape flavours. “I recently came down with the flu and ever since then my lungs, they’ve been not in the best shape.” He’s heard of others who had strokes linked to vaping. Now he’s buying vapes containing 1,800 puffs from vape shops and tobacconists, and he can use one of those up in around four days.
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