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Vaping: Do You or Someone You Know Use Electronic Cigarettes Such As Vapes?

Vaping poses serious health risks such as cancer, respiratory diseases, and cardiovascular diseases. Teenagers are particularly vulnerable to nicotine addiction from vaping. The media has contributed to the rise of vaping among youth by allowing tobacco company advertising. Advocacy groups like Tobacco-Free Kids work to educate teenagers and their communities about the dangers of vaping and help prevent youth from starting or encourage them to quit.

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Vaping: Do You or Someone You Know Use Electronic Cigarettes Such As Vapes?

Vaping poses serious health risks such as cancer, respiratory diseases, and cardiovascular diseases. Teenagers are particularly vulnerable to nicotine addiction from vaping. The media has contributed to the rise of vaping among youth by allowing tobacco company advertising. Advocacy groups like Tobacco-Free Kids work to educate teenagers and their communities about the dangers of vaping and help prevent youth from starting or encourage them to quit.

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THE HIGH HEALTH RISKS OF

DO YOU OR SOMEONE
YOU KNOW USE
VAPING “One vape pod may contain as
much nicotine as 1 pack of
cigarettes” (Willett, Bennett,
ELECTRONIC
CIGARETTES SUCH AS
AND THE DANGEROUS and Hair, 2018). VAPES?
ADDICTION THAT CAN
COME WITH IT.
As the popularity of vaping has been on the
rise in the United States, the health disparities
POTENTIAL HEALTH RISKS: have also increased. Teenagers are at the
highest risk of becoming addicted to tobacco
- Cancers products such as vapes.
Kamryn Moss - Respiratory diseases
NUR 3624 - Cardiovascular diseases
- Reproductive problems
- Delay in brain development
Tobacco-Free Kids THE MEDIA
Organization The media has taken one of the most
vulnerable populations (high schoolers) and
SEARCH FOR ADVOCACY TOOLS
reeled in their attention. Media outlets have
Be an advocate to help spread the allowed tobacco companies to advertise on
word of the addiction of vaping their websites.
and the detriment it can do to
one’s health.
• “ONE-THIRD OF UNDERAGE
STATISTICS EXPERIMENTATION WITH SMOKING
High school students who use e- IS ATTRIBUTABLE TO TOBACCO
cigarettes: 26.1% (U.S. Food and COMPANY ADVERTISING” (NATIONAL
Drug Administration, 2020). CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND
HEALTH PROMOTION (US) OFFICE ON SMOKING AND
HEALTH, 2014).

PARTICIPANTS • THE PLAN:


B Participants may include any Show the teenagers that there are
ub person who smokes vapes or organizations that can help. Show them
know someone who smokes through their social media! Tobacco-Free
vapes. Typically, teenagers are the highest Kids is a strong advocate for stopping
population of individuals who use vapes. To tobacco use in teenagers. The organization
develop a plan, going to the most vulnerable works at a local, state, federal, and worldwide
places, such as high school hangouts or the level to stop the addiction and health risks of
school nurse would be best. Explaining the vaping. Not only teaching the teenagers
potentially deadly side effects of vaping to about the risks of vaping, but teaching their
the high schoolers could prevent them from parents, teachers, siblings, etc. can help.
vaping or take the steps to quit vaping. Teenagers are too young to be addicted to
anything, and explaining that there is help,
may save a life!

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