VAPING has greater than doubled amongst 15-year-old women — with a worrying one in 5 utilizing them, figures reveal.
Medical doctors are “deeply disturbed” at statistics exhibiting 21 per cent smoked e-ciggies final yr — up from ten per cent in 2018.
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Total, nearly one in ten women aged between 11 and 15 have been utilizing the nicotine supply units final yr, the stunning NHS Digital figures point out.
Youngsters’ well being specialists are calling for a crackdown on vaping — which, like smoking, is against the law for under-18s — earlier than extra youthful women change into nicotine addicts.
Dr Michael McKean, of the Royal Faculty of Paediatrics and Youngster Well being, known as for plain wrappers and tighter restrictions on promoting.
He stated companies have been concentrating on children with vapes bought with “shiny packaging, unique flavours and engaging names” on nearly all UK excessive streets.
He stated: “These corporations are merely serious about ‘hooking’ younger individuals to make a revenue off them. There’s no thought or care about their well being.
“If motion shouldn’t be taken quickly, we run the danger of getting generations of youngsters hooked on nicotine.”
Professor Ann McNeill, an professional in tobacco dependancy at King’s Faculty London, stated: “The rise in youth vaping is regarding.”
She added that the explanations behind the surge should be understood, whether or not or not it’s “packaging, accessibility, style or addictiveness”.
The report additionally revealed cigarette smoking amongst secondary faculty pupils was down from 5 to a few per cent since 2018.
The quantity attempting medication fell from 24 to 18 per cent.
