The Washington Post (12/4, Searing) reports, “Among high school teens in the United States, about 22 percent said they had used e-cigarettes, known as vaping, in the preceding 30 days,” according to researchpublished in the journal JAMA Pediatrics. Meanwhile, “two new studies, published in the journals Tobacco Induced Diseases and PLOS One, report a link between vaping and mental fog.” Further, “people who vape, compared with those who do not, are 43 percent more likely to develop a respiratory disease,” according to research published in JAMA Network Open, and “a new study in the journal Addictive Behaviors finds that youths who vape are nearly three times more likely to take up cigarette smoking and more than twice as likely to try smokeless tobacco as are those who do not use e-cigarettes.”
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