Vaping

The increasing use of cannabis and vaping among U.S. adolescents may be associated with how teens spend their time, according to a study published in Substance Use & Misuse.

The FDA issued marketing denial orders to Juul Labs for all of their vaping devices and related products. As a result, the company must stop selling and distributing these products, and those currently on the U.S. market must be removed.

Evidence suggests vaping causes adverse CV and respiratory effects, so action must be taken to reduce or prevent access to e-cigarettes to adolescents, according to an American Heart Association scientific statement.

SAN FRANCISCO — A study of North Philadelphia high school students highlighted the COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on youth vaping patterns and cessation motivation, researchers reported at the American Thoracic Society International Conference.

SAN FRANCISCO — In a new study, researchers detected the presence of synthetic cooling agents in U.S.-marketed e-cigarettes, at levels that may exceed current safety thresholds.

In this video, Martha Lassiter, MSN, RN, BMTCN, AOCNS, discussed e-cigarette usage among middle school students, which she presented as part of a Best of Oral Abstracts: Quality Improvement session at Oncology Nursing Society Congress 2022.

More than 2.5 million middle and high school students in the United States reported current use of a tobacco product in 2021, according to results from the National Youth Tobacco Survey that were published Thursday in MMWR.

Among smokers who did not have an initial plan to stop smoking, daily e-cigarette use was associated with higher odds of cigarette discontinuation, according to results published in JAMA Network Open.

In young adults, secondhand nicotine vape exposure was associated with an increased risk for bronchitic symptoms and shortness of breath, researchers reported in Thorax.

Flavors are an important motivator for e-cigarette uptake in youth, but the role of flavored e-cigarettes on uptake of tobacco smoking or cessation remains unclear, according to a systematic review published in Addiction.