I understand that young people find it hard to identify with health messages, harsh or otherwise, and what's more it is not possible to employ the same message for all users, whatever their age - in the same way that you cannot have cars that only 25-year-olds are allowed to buy." In 2003, the European Union, applying World Health Organization recommendations, approved a catalogue of 42 images, most of them very graphic, related to the negative consequences of smoking
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 3.6 million US middle and high school students used e-cigarettes during a 30-day study period in 2020, with 4.7 percent of middle school students and 19.6 percent of high school students using them
"There is simply no safe level of smoking," said Dr Len Horovitz, a pulmonary specialist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City
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So, while vaping may be slightly less harmful than cigarettes for now, rethink whether you really want to swap one bad habit for another
