E-cigarettes in the upswing: dangerous trends among young people!

E-cigarettes in the upswing: dangerous trends among young people!

Klinikum Nürnberg, Deutschland - The alarming results of the Debra study are here! More and more people in Germany use e-cigarettes-a trend that is particularly booming. The health economist Stephanie Klosterhalfen from the University Hospital Düsseldorf reports on a shocking increase in consumption by 38 percent between 2016 and 2023. At the moment, 2.2 percent of the population aged 14 and over are used by these products. Disposable E cigarettes are particularly popular because they are cheap and offer up to 600 trains. But while the e-cigarettes are booming, around 30 percent of German classic tobacco cigarettes are still smoking.

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The dangers of e-cigarettes should not be underestimated! Lung specialist Matthias Urlbauer warns: e-cigarettes are no less dangerous, but different. The vapors penetrate deeper into the lungs than the smoke of conventional cigarettes. What the fabrics contained there is still unclear, but url makers fear that new clinical pictures could appear in 20 years. The variety of flavors is particularly worrying - over 16,000 are in circulation! Many of these flavors have not yet been sufficiently researched, and some even contain carcinogenic pollutants such as lead and arsenic.

Industry sells e-cigarettes like sweet candies, and that annoys Urlbauer. Advertising promises 95 percent less pollutants than with conventional cigarettes - a misleading claim! The so-called "dual use" is particularly dangerous, in which users consume both e-cigarettes and classic cigarettes. This combination means that the lungs are fully exposed to pollutants. Urlbauer urgently demands more information and bans for certain flavors to better protect young people. Smoking is always harmful and the addiction is possible - but the dangers must be clearly communicated!