As mentioned in Friday's IAA Blog, our prevention partners at the Partnership to End Addiction created a video and article that helps break down the latest facts on current substance abuse trends. It's important to keep an eye on these emerging trends so each day this week here on the IAA Blog, we will highlight one of the Top 7 Substance Use Trends featured in the Partnership to End Addiction article. Today's blog will focus on VAPING - with real information to help parents guide and support teens.
Vaping is not something new, but it continues to evolve. Vaping is the act of inhaling and exhaling an aerosol produced by an e-cigarette, vape pen, or similar devices called "vapes".
These devices contain flavored e-liquids, nicotine, and/or cannabis (marijuana). Enticing fruit and candy flavors have attracted young people and nonsmokers to try these products. It is important to know that vapes are not safe and illnesses and even deaths have been linked to their use.
E-cigarettes have become more discreet - often resembling USB drives, pens, or even watches. The biggest concerns are FLAVORS that mask the harshness of nicotine and make it easier for first-time users. Today's nicotine concentrations have skyrocketed - one pod can contain as much nicotine as an entire pack of cigarettes!
Parents should know how to recognize signs of vaping that may include increased thirst, sweet smells, unfamiliar tech devices, small cartridges, or pods. Regardless of whether you notice these signs with your child or not, talk to them. Starting the conversation can be as easy as asking, "Vaping devices keep changing. What are you seeing at your school these days?"
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Tomorrow, we will talk about another current trend popular with teens: Nicotine Pouches
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