Emerging emergency of e-cigarette: An overview
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Raj Kumar 1 2 3 * , Manoj Kumar 1 2 , Dileep Kumar Arisham 2 , Pooja Naudiyal 4 , Shyam Kanhaiya Saroj 5 , Dheeresh Kumar 2 , Vidhi Sai Nath 6 , Gunjan Goutam 3
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1 Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute, University of Delhi, Delhi, INDIA2 National Center of Respiratory Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute, University of Delhi, Delhi, INDIA3 National Tobacco Quitline Services, Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute, Delhi, INDIA4 Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Sardar Bhagwan Singh University Dehradun, Uttaranchal, INDIA5 Department of Social Work, University of Delhi, Delhi, INDIA6 Department of Botany and Life Sciences, Sri Aurobindo College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, INDIA* Corresponding Author

Abstract

Teenagers are quickly adopting electronic cigarettes, or “e-cigarettes,” as a new trend that heralds in the era of vapors. With the help of battery-operated e-cigarettes, users can simulate traditional smoking by heating a liquid solution that usually has flavoring into an aerosol mist that they inhale. The purpose of this review article is to discuss the risks to health and lung damage that are associated with using e-cigarettes. To review the emerging emergency of e-cigarettes of the most susceptible group of teenagers who start using e-cigarettes. It is recommended that community-based and local health authorities endeavor to instruct youth on the detrimental consequences of vaping and enacting legislation that forbids minors from obtaining electronic cigarettes. We reviewed many literature articles from online electronic databases were the PubMed, EMBASE, and Google Scholar databases: teens, vaping, e-cigarettes, and adolescents. This review article is all about the widespread e-cigarette use, particularly among some adolescent demographic subgroups. It is focusing on e-cigarette/vaping. Electronic cigarettes are growing in popularity all over the world. Thus, nations must enact laws outlawing vaping in public areas and imposing more stringent regulations on the use and marketing of electronic cigarettes. In this review, explained about the consequences for human health including coronavirus disease 2019. To raise community awareness about vaping with e-cigarettes, information campaigns must be planned and executed. It is necessary to control the menace of e-cigarette/vaping in society to save the generation.

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Article Type: Review Article

J CONTEMP STUD EPIDEMIOL PUBLIC HEALTH, Volume 6, Issue 1, 2025, Article No: ep25003

https://doi.org/10.29333/jconseph/16374

Publication date: 14 May 2025

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