Doctors have raised the alarm about high levels of vaping among children worldwide, saying they are convinced e-cigarettes are causing irreversible harm to their health.

Cardiologists, researchers and health experts said they were “extremely concerned” about the harmful effects of e-cigarettes on millions of teenagers and young people, including exposure to toxins and carcinogens – some of which are still unknown.

Nicotine levels in e-cigarettes can be very high, raising the risk of addiction and injury to the developing brains of adolescents. Children are also risking long-term cardiovascular effects as a result of vaping at school and college, experts say.

Speaking at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) annual congress in Madrid, the world’s largest heart conference, Prof Maja-Lisa Løchen, a senior cardiologist at the University hospital of North Norway, said she was concerned that millions of children could face ill health in future.

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  • TehPers@beehaw.org
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    4 months ago

    Stop vaping. Cold turkey.

    Vaping (nicotine products) is harmful to children. Even if you pretend like there are no other health effects, it is a chemically addictive substance and will have at minimum potentially significant financial harm to a child as they advance through life until they break the addiction (if ever).

    Once someone’s mature enough to be responsible for their own decisions, I don’t really care what they do. Until then, I’m not really sure there’s any reason to advocate for an unnecessary additional addiction beyond the already prevalent caffeine and sugar addictions developed during youth.

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      4 months ago

      Addiction is not a valid word. Make your own decisions, or else you are a kid. Age is completely irrelevant. I have my own will and after experiencing damn near everything in the book at some point of learning in my life, including a bunch of shit you don’t know about either, Cannabis is the most absolute damaging “drug” into my psyche I’ve ever struggled with studying myself.

      You don’t know what being an adult is because you listen to garbage. It’s like listening to people talk inside a church. So much garbage comes from your ignorance, I have nothing to really say that would educate you becauae you are not my child.

      So STFU unless you got the real facts I valled for and you ignored the demand of.

      I don’t give a fuck what you think. If we need no sources, then learn that everyone dies by 2030 because you drive a fucking vehicle, ASSHOLE. More people die from your decisions than mine. Tell me I wrong about that. That you haven’t burnt gasoline in your fucking hands for the last decade the way I refuse to.

      Like I give a fuck about who you think you are. You are suicidal in the name of everyone on this planet. If you want to disagree with me, THEN STOP DRIVING VEHICLES NOW./

      Or whatever. Like I give a flying fuck about the pollution spewing out if your mouth. Nor WILL I ever listen to you when you got no facts to support your clear ignorance.

      You have no will. Addiction is not a real word beyond showing everyone the you are vampire or (in your case) a ghoul.

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          4 months ago

          Damn, I kinda want to see the new copy pasta, but am too late.

          Edit: Checked moderation history, 2/10, way less entertaining than I thought it would be. Not worth the effort.

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            4 months ago

            Yea, comment was pretty unhinged, maybe with some revision it could have been a good one. Just trying to keep it light.