Teens are struggling to quit smoking and vaping
by Nicole Wetsman from The Verge - All Posts on (#5XCNA)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge More adolescents failed to quit smoking in 2020 than in any of the previous 13 years, according to new data published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. 2020 was the first year the research team had data on attempts to quit e-cigarettes, and it showed that around 4 percent of adolescents unsuccessfully attempted to quit e-cigarettes.
E-cigarettes have been pushed to adult smokers as an alternative to traditional, combustible cigarettes - some evidence shows they might be less dangerous, and there's mixed evidence that they could push adults to quit smoking altogether. But the picture might be different for teens, who started vaping in droves in 2018 and are far less likely to be cigarette smokers first. The new analysis...