Vaping Makes Teens & Adults Vulnerable To Asthma: Study

Vaping Makes Teens & Adults Vulnerable To Asthma: Study

Introduction

As per the new research by the Child Health Evaluative Sciences program at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, vaping among teens and young adults can have worsening health conditions and can increase the risk of asthma or asthma attacks.

American Thoracic Society conducted a virtual conference where the study was presented which highlighted the links between e-cigarettes and asthma. The researchers are yet unsure about e-cigarettes causing asthma, but vaping surely worsens asthma over time.

Canadian Community Health Survey's data from 2015 to 2016 and 2017-2018 was used by the researchers, which included more than 17,000 people aged 12 and up.

The reports stated that more than 3% of the participants used e-cigarettes in the last 30 days, which equals to 1 in 32 people from the survey. It also concluded that people using e-cigarettes even smoked traditional cigarettes.

Some other findings of the research include that 13% of participants had asthma and e-cigarette users have 19% chances of having asthma. The research even stated that existing and former smokers have a 20% and 33% higher risk of having asthma, respectively. The study even stated that the e-cigarette users have poor mental health as compared to the people who do not vape.

Vaping is most common and popular among teens and young adults over the past decade and the manufacturers are to be blamed for the teen vaping epidemic. JUUL is one of the biggest marketers and manufacturers of e-cigarettes. It has widely disrupted schools and local municipalities by leaving young adults addicted to nicotine.