Claim: Houston reports 3 teens treated for vape-related lung issues.
Verdict: SUPPORTS

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title: Electronic cigarette
text: use JUUL. Vaping frequently takes place in bathroom stalls at school, and some students are able to vape in class undetected by teachers. There has been an increasing trend in vaping among adolescents. In 2011 the National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS) began surveying vaping use. Lifetime use among middle school aged students in 2011 was 1.4% and increased 3% by 2013. Ongoing use (use within 30 days) among middle school students in 2011 was 0.6% and increased to 3.9% by 2014. Among high school students, Lifetime use in 2011 was 4.7% and increased to 11.9% by 2013, and ongoing use

title: Electronic cigarette
text: and Juuling is a large part of internet culture for young people and the subject of many memes on social media. In 2017, about 13 percent of 8th graders, 24 percent of 10th graders, and nearly 28 percent of 12th graders at American schools reported vaping in the past year, according to research sponsored by the National Institutes of Health. Survey data suggests that teens use e-cigarettes substantially more than cigarettes and that teenagers tend to perceive as e-cigarettes as safer than cigarettes or harmless. Boys are more likely to use e-cigarettes than girls and are twice as likely to

title: JUUL
text: 15-year old son of the plaintiff made him "heavily addicted to nicotine" causing him to be "anxious, highly irritable and prone to angry outbursts." In late 2018, news reports noted increasing rates of JUUL addiction in teenagers, which negatively impacts brain development and relationships. JUUL's high nicotine content has attracted concern because of nicotine's addictive properties and also because nicotine can cause impaired lung and brain development, especially of the prefrontal cortex, which affects judgement and impulse control. Particular concern has been expressed about the lack of vaping cessation treatments for adolescents, and the FDA has scheduled a public hearing

title: Electronic cigarette
text: Public Health England say there is no evidence that e-cigarettes increase teen tobacco smoking, and tentative evidence that e-cigarettes divert young people away from cigarettes; but in the US, researchers say use by young people correlates with increased desire to smoke tobacco, and that teenagers who have used an e-cigarette are more inclined to become smokers than those who had not. Most adolescents who vape do not smoke cigarettes. Most say that when they vape, they use liquid without nicotine. Motivation for use by minors is not likely to be associated with quitting smoking. It is more likely to be

title: Youth smoking
text: risk or protective factor for traditional cigarette smoking is debatable, however adolescents are very susceptible to the lure that accompanies e-cigarettes. Ultimately, e-cigarettes may play the role of a ‘gateway drug’ to smoking traditional cigarettes. A new trend among youth is using e-cigarettes to vaporize liquid marijuana which can increase the potency of strain of THC increasing the potential consequences to adolescent brain development. Following e-cigarettes, the next most commonly used tobacco product among youth are cigars. In 2016 it was estimated that 7.7% of high school students smoked cigars. From 2000 to 2012 there was a surge in adolescent

title: Nicotine Anonymous
text: rates. Acupuncture, hypnosis, inpatient treatment, and Nicotine Anonymous have not been shown effective thus far. In a controlled study 205 alcoholics, with heavy tobacco dependence (an average of 26.8 cigarettes per day) and three months or more of continuous abstinence from drugs and alcohol, were placed at random in one of three treatment groups: an American Lung Association Quit Program plus Nicotine Anonymous meetings group, a behavioral counseling plus physical exercise group, or a behavioral counseling plus nicotine gum group. The effectiveness of the treatment programs was measured at post-treatment, six months, and twelve-months following post-treatment based on self-reports confirmed

title: Inhalant
text: away for treatment. Despite being moved to the new community of Natuashish in 2002, serious inhalant abuse problems have continued. Similar problems were reported in Sheshatshiu in 2000 and also in Pikangikum First Nation. In 2012, the issue once again made the news media in Canada. In Mexico, the inhaling of a mixture of gasoline and industrial solvents, known locally as "Activo" or "Chemo", has risen in popularity among the homeless and among the street children of Mexico City in recent years. The mixture is poured onto a handkerchief and inhaled while held in one's fist. In the US, ether

title: Youth in Saudi Arabia
text: National Youth Strategy as well as conduct surveys asking youth to comment on their issues and needs, so that the country knows what services to provide for them. Smoking is one health concern that affects Saudi youth. Smoking prevalence among sixteen- to eighteen-year-old students in secondary schools located in Riyadh was "high and alarming", according to a 2011 study published in the "Annals of Thoracic Medicine". Out of 1272 students studied, the percentage of students that were currently smoking was about 19.5% (31.2% of boys and 8.9% of girls), and the percentage of students that had smoked before was about

title: Youth smoking
text: function. While many of these cancers and diseases can develop when an individual is of an older age, changes in one's physical well being contributing to these diseases may begin during adolescence. In a study examining nearly 10,000 males and females ranging in age from ten to eighteen across the United States, adolescents who smoked cigarettes exhibited impaired pulmonary function. Adolescent smokers exhibited delayed growth in lung function, as well as mild airway obstruction. While heart disease and stroke are consequences more commonly seen in adulthood, early signs of these effects can often be found in adolescent smokers. In addition,

title: Positions of medical organizations on electronic cigarettes
text: youths and they are now the most commonly used tobacco product among adolescents. Initiation of electronic cigarette use is strongly associated with the subsequent initiation of combustible tobacco product use among adolescents." In January 2014, the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease released a statement asserting that the benefits and safety of e-cigarettes have not been scientifically proven. The statement highlighted concerns with regards to "re-normalization" of smoking behavior and exposure of third parties to possibly dangerous emissions from e-cigarettes, and strongly supported regulation of electronic cigarettes, preferably as medicines. The World Lung Foundation (now known as Vital Strategies)

title: Nicotine Anonymous
text: The American Cancer Society, The American Lung Association, The American Heart Association and The Seventh-day Adventist Church. Commercial programs include cognitive-behavioral group therapy, nicotine replacement therapies and bupropion. Combinations of these approaches, marketed in commercial packages such as Smokeless and Smoke Stoppers, are licensed to treatment providers and conducted on an inpatient or outpatient basis. These are in addition to local programs ran by regional treatment facilities. A weekly NicA meeting is ongoing and therefore unique among the array of treatment options because nicotine users and ex-nicotine users can enter and leave the process as they please. Most other treatment

title: Students Working Against Tobacco
text: Chiles directed money won in the settlement to fund a state program to prevent youth smoking. Out of these funds came SWAT; From 1998 to 2003, youth smoking decreased by more than 50% among Florida youth in grades 6-12 . SWAT continues its operations in Florida under the guidance of four Regional Tobacco Prevention Coordinators. Florida received another tobacco settlement in 2005 and on November 7, 2006, Floridians voted to pass Amendment 4 requiring 15% ($57 million) of the settlement to be used to fund a statewide tobacco education and prevention program. This funding has been made available to individual

title: Youth smoking
text: Youth smoking Smoking among youth and adolescents is an issue that affects countries worldwide. While the extent to which smoking is viewed as a negative health behavior may vary across different nations, it remains an issue regardless of how it is perceived by different societies. The United States has taken numerous measures, ranging from changes in national policy surrounding youth cigarette access to changes in media campaigns, in attempts to eliminate the use of tobacco products among teenagers. Approximately 90% of smokers begin smoking prior to the age of 18. In efforts to reduce the total number of smokers and

title: Students Working Against Tobacco
text: the information that has been found to be less effective in reducing teen smoking. On page 75, Rosenberg describes research by RTI International showing that only 2 beliefs actually correlate with lower teen smoking: 1) cigarette companies lie, and 2) cigarette companies try to get youth to start smoking. On page 78, she notes that the "tobacco industry gave its approval to themes of addictiveness, health effects, and social costs because they were the proven failures. The states probably agreed to them at the time [of the Master Settlement Agreement] because they didn't know better." Other such programs exist, though

title: Electronic cigarette
text: adjust their devices to provide more vapor for better "throat hits". Although smoking among young people has declined over the last five years, this has coincided with a growth in the use of alternative nicotine products. Overall frequency of vaping in minors is low. However, among schoolchildren, e-cigarette use surpasses the use of any other nicotine product. Some young people who have tried an e-cigarette have never smoked tobacco, so vaping can be a starting point for nicotine use. The evidence on whether e-cigarettes are a gateway to tobacco smoking in later life is mixed and contradictory. In the UK,

title: Electronic cigarette
text: was 1.5% in 2011 and increased to 13.4% by 2014. The percentage of electronic-cigarette lifetime use in adults in 2010 was 3.3% and increased to 8.5% by 2013, and ongoing use in 2010 was 1% and increased to 2.6% by 2013. Results in 2018 show continued growth of electronic cigarettes with concern that for combustible cigarettes most addiction begins by age 18 (nearly 90%) with 95% starting smoking by age 21, while 1% of smokers start after age 25. Between 2011 and 2018 the number of youth who have tried vaping has increased from 1.5% to 20.8% of High School

title: Underage smoking in Australia
text: to be heavy users of tobacco, and therefore, the greater risk they have of obtaining poor health. Smoking during adolescence causes serious health problems, in regards to the respiratory and asthma-related symptoms, including shortness of breath, coughing spells, phlegm, increased frequent headaches, and wheezing. Smoking as an adolescent also impairs lung growth, and causes the early onset of lung function deterioration during late adolescence and early adulthood; this only brings upon early addition to nicotine, and worse overall health. Immediate effects of smoking include a rise in heart rate and blood pressure, shaky hands, and a drop in skin temperature

title: Safety of electronic cigarettes
text: connected with higher cognitive function processes, later achievement, as well as the chance of nicotine addiction for life. The adolescent's developing brain is especially sensitive to the harmful effects of nicotine. A short period of regular or occasional nicotine exposure in adolescence exerts long-term neurobehavioral damage. In August 2014, the American Heart Association noted that "e-cigarettes could fuel and promote nicotine addiction, especially in children." A policy statement by the UK's Faculty of Public Health has stated, "A key concern for everyone in public health is that children and young people are being targeted by mass advertising of e-cigarettes. There

title: Electronic cigarette
text: 6, who have a lower median lethal dose than adolescents or adults, and it is worst for 1-year-olds. Early signs of accidental nicotine exposure include quickened heart rate (tachycardia), sweating (diaphoresis), nausea, and vomiting, late effects include low blood pressure (hypotension) and reduced breathing (respiratory depression or hypoventilation), and rare effects include coma, seizure, sustained inability to breath (respiratory arrest), heart attack (cardiac arrest), and death. Two children in the US and four adults in the US and Europe have died from ingesting liquid nicotine. As the usage of e-cigarettes increased between 2012 and 2015, the accidental nicotine exposure rate

title: Smoking cessation
text: shown to improve smoking cessation among people who visit those services. Although smoking prevalence has declined in recent years leading up to 2016, certain subpopulations continue to smoke at disproportionately high rates and show resistance to cessation treatments. Methods used with children and adolescents include: A Cochrane review, mainly of studies combining motivational enhancement and psychological support, concluded that "complex approaches" for smoking cessation among young people show promise. The 2008 US Guideline recommends counselling-style support for adolescent smokers on the basis of a meta-analysis of seven studies. Neither the Cochrane review nor the 2008 Guideline recommends medications for adolescents