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Middle School Students Provide Insight on Using Television Clips for Vaping Education

Over the last five years adolescent use of e-cigarettes, also known as vaping, has risen rapidly. The 2022 National Youth Tobacco Survey found that 2.5 million high school and 380,000 middle school students in the United States currently vape. This is concerning because vaping in young people is associated with several harms. For example, vaping in adolescence is associated with nicotine addiction and starting to smoke combustible cigarettes later in life. There is also the risk of acute illness, such as e-cigarette, or vaping, product-use associated lung injury (EVALI), a disease that first garnered public attention in summer of 2019. By February 2020, more than 2,700 cases requiring hospitalization of EVALI had been reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), with over 75% of these patients under 35. In mid-January 2020, the CDC reported a link between vaping THC containing devices and EVALI, but noted that 14% of cases were in patients who exclusively used nicotine containing products.

Editor's Picks, ResearchWehida NiaziOctober 17, 2023e-cigarettes, vape, addiction

Developing and Evaluating a School-Based Tobacco and E-Cigarette Prevention Program for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Youth

Tobacco use, a leading cause of preventable death in the U.S., most frequently begins in adolescence. E-cigarettes are now the most widely used tobacco products among adolescents and young adults, and the prevalence of vaping among young people threatens to roll back years of progress in tobacco prevention and control. School-based programming has a critical place in tobacco prevention efforts for youth. Given the shifting trends in product use, these programs increasingly focus on e-cigarettes/vaping.

ResearchWehida NiaziJune 1, 2023tobacco, deaf, e-cigarettes, youth