Alarming Statistics of Users Now Use E-Cigarettes, Warns Global Health Organization
Over 100 hundred million users, featuring at minimum 15 million children, now utilize e-cigarettes, propelling a new surge of nicotine habit, as stated by latest worldwide public health findings.
Minors are, typically, nine times more prone than adults to use e-cigarettes, based on existing international statistics.
E-cigarettes are fueling a "new wave" of nicotine addiction, remarked a leading health representative. "They are advertised as risk reduction but, truthfully, are hooking youth on nicotine earlier and risk weakening generations of progress."
Teens Being 'Targeted'
"Countless of citizens are ceasing, or not taking up tobacco usage because of tobacco control measures by states throughout the planet," he said.
"As an answer to this significant advancement, the tobacco sector is resisting with new nicotine items, actively targeting youth. Authorities must take action more rapidly and more vigorously in enacting established tobacco-control policies," the representative added.
The e-cigarette numbers are a projection since several countries - 109 in total, and several in African and Southeast Asia - do not gather information.
According to the report, as of February this period, at minimum 86 million e-cigarette consumers were adults, primarily in high-income states.
And at least 15 million adolescents aged 13 and 15 presently engage in vaping, based on studies from 123 nations.
While several nations have made efforts to introduce e-cigarette rules to tackle underage vaping in the past few years, by the close of 2024, 62 nations yet had no regulation in effect, and 74 nations had no minimum age at which e-cigarettes are allowed to be acquired, says the medical authority.
Meanwhile, tobacco use has been declining - from an estimated 1.38 billion consumers in 2000 to 1.2 billion in 2024.
Occurrence of tobacco use among females dropped the largest - from 11% in 2010 to 6.6% in 2024.
Among males, the drop was from 41.4% in 2010 to 32.5% in 2024.
But a fifth of adults worldwide still employs tobacco.
Smoking is associated to several illnesses, such as cancer.
Experts state vaping is significantly less damaging than tobacco products, and can help you stop smoking. It is discouraged for non-smokers.
Electronic cigarettes do not burn tobacco and do not produce resin or CO, a pair of the most damaging substances in tobacco fumes. They contain nicotine, which can be habit-forming.
