Britain is optimistic about the use of vape for youth

The United States is more cautious about the use of vape in youth. In 2018, the FDA even talked about the major vape manufacturers ordering them to take measures to submit specific plans to prevent young people from purchasing vape within 60 days. Although it has little effect, it can also see the strictness of the US government's control over vape.

According to the National Youth Tobacco Survey, from 2017 to 2018, the proportion of high school students who contacted vape rose from 11.7% to 20.8%, an increase of 78%; junior high school students rose from 3.3% to 4.9%, an increase of 48%. An increase of 1.5 million people in a year, it is estimated that a total of 3.6 million high school students have been exposed to vape.

Compared with the United States, the UK is more optimistic about the use of vape by teenagers. The UK, as before, still encourages smokers to use vape as a smoking cessation tool and insists that vape is 95% less harmful than cigarettes. . For the issue of vape for adolescents, the UK believes that the use of vape by adolescents is not serious, and that adolescents who use vape for a long time are very few.

For example, in January 2019, a charity called the British Cancer Research Center said that in the UK, vape led young people to smoke, lacking evidence. Young people’s smoking has been declining, and the probability of non-smoking young people using vape is very low, around 0-1%.

The document further states that in Europe, although young people are more willing to try vape, young people are less likely to use vape than older people, which means that trying vape does not lead to smoking.

In December 2018, the British Ministry of Public Health released a short film to show people that vape is less harmful than traditional cigarettes. Call on the public not to think about vape and cigarette hazard, choose to continue smoking instead of trying vape.

This material and the British Public Health Department's promotional film were released in December 2018, but revealed a different tendency. This material emphasizes that vape is harmful, that vape is not clear, and that it is more likely to believe that vape will cause smoking in young people.

In China, one-time vapes appear in the Shiduo store next to primary and secondary schools. Because students have poor identification of product quality, these vapes are usually three products (no manufacturer name, There is no production site, no product coded for production hygiene licenses. In addition to the inherent hazards of vape, the harm caused by such products to students' bodies is unpredictable. In addition to some Shido stores, vape stores also sell vape and e liquid to students, which means that both vape and e liquid can be easily purchased by primary and secondary school students.

Vape is a very effective smoking cessation tool, we need to actively promote it, but only for customers who are already smokers. For the issue of vape for young people, we need to be cautious. Although the use of vape by teenagers in the UK is not serious, the management and legal system of each country are different. The news of domestic vape use by teenagers We are still relatively common, hoping to attract the attention of relevant departments, and sort out the chaos of the vape market as soon as possible.