International Journalism, Topic “B”

Vaping is a public disaster that threatens children's health

Vaping is dangerous to children's health.

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Experts warn that children's vaping could turn into a public health disaster in the UK, and there are fears the e-cigarette boom could lead to a generation of young people addicted to nicotine.

Although it's illegal to sell the devices to people under the age of 18, research indicates a sharp rise in e-cigarette smoking for underage people over the past five years, according to the Office of Smoking and Health Actions.

And the British newspaper, The Observer, revealed last weekend how Aleph Bar, one of the leading brands in the disposable e-cigarette industry, apparently violated the rules of promoting its products to young people on the social media application “Tik Tok”.

Pediatric respiratory doctors are now criticizing the government for failing to heed warnings about the dangers of allowing e-cigarettes to be sold in child-friendly packages containing the names of popular sweets, including banana milk and jelly, both of which contain 2% nicotine, the highest allowed concentration in the kingdom. United.

Sharon Carter, 47, faces a similar dilemma. Her son tried vaping for the first time when he was eleven years old. Three weeks after starting high school, she discovered that her son and his friends were hiding vaping in a carry-on bag in the bush. They take it back every afternoon on their way back from school.

Her son is now 12 years old, and since then a teacher has often seen him vaping outside the school gates.

His mother says: “One time I entered the house not long after he used it (vaping), and I could smell the smoke, and he was trying to make me think that it was chewing gum, but I searched his room and found it and ordered him to quit.”

She tried to cut his pockets and go to school to bring him home by herself rather than letting him come back by himself, but her efforts so far have been futile.

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