Flavors, product designs, and marketing plans are also evaluated for those applications to understand if young people who do not use tobacco would be more or less likely to begin using the products 7
But both products contain nicotine, which is highly addictive and can harm the developing brains of adolescents
[E-cigarettes] could be a way to help people quit but we need more evidence and regulation, says Armand Peruga, program manager for the WHOs Tobacco Free Initiative, which has celebrated 10 years of its Framework for Tobacco Control whilst at the conference in Abu Dhabi
In addition, e-cigarette use has been linked to lung diseases, including pneumonia, respiratory bronchiolitis-associated interstitial lung disease (an inflammatory disease previously seen mainly in heavy tobacco smokers), and hypersensitivity pneumonitis (a type of allergic reaction in the lungs), according to a 2022 review published in the journal Annual Review of Physiology
Cigarettes Cigarettes have been a known public health threat since 1964, when public alerts were finally issued about how dangerous cigarette smoke was to the human body