Concerning Number of Individuals Now Use E-Cigarettes, Reports Global Health Body
Over 100 hundred million users, featuring at bare minimum 15 million minors, now use e-cigarettes, propelling a new surge of nicotine dependency, per latest worldwide health data.
Youth are, usually, nine times more prone than adults to vape, per available international figures.
E-cigarettes are fueling a "fresh wave" of nicotine dependency, commented a prominent health representative. "These devices are marketed as harm reduction but, truthfully, are addicting children on nicotine sooner and threaten compromising years of improvement."
Teens Being 'Targeted'
"Millions of people are quitting, or not taking up tobacco usage due to tobacco regulation measures by states around the world," the official said.
"As an answer to this strong advancement, the tobacco sector is fighting back with novel nicotine items, aggressively focusing on young people. Authorities must act faster and stronger in enacting tested tobacco-control measures," the official continued.
The e-cigarette statistics are an approximation since some nations - 109 in all, and several in African and Asian regions - do not gather data.
According to the study, as of this past February this period, at bare minimum 86 million e-cigarette consumers were grown-ups, mainly in high-income nations.
And at minimum 15 million adolescents aged 13 and 15 already vape, according to surveys from 123 nations.
Although many countries have made efforts to introduce e-cigarette policies to address underage vaping in the past few years, by the close of 2024, 62 states still had no measure in effect, and 74 nations had no minimum age at which e-cigarettes are allowed to be acquired, states the medical authority.
At the same time, tobacco use has been dropping - from an estimated 1.38 billion consumers in 2000 to 1.2 billion in 2024.
Prevalence of tobacco use among females fell the largest - from 11% in 2010 to 6.6% in 2024.
With men, the reduction was from 41.4% in 2010 to 32.5% in 2024.
But 20% of adults worldwide still employs tobacco.
Tobacco use is linked to numerous diseases, like cancer.
Experts claim vaping is significantly less dangerous than tobacco products, and can help you stop smoking. It is advised against for non-smokers.
Vaping devices do not burn tobacco and avoid generating tar or CO, a pair of the most harmful substances in tobacco fumes. They have nicotine, which can be dependency-creating.
