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European girls aged 13-15 have world’s highest rate of tobacco use for age group (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] RidderSport@feddit.org 2 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

The problem is however, that there's no studies on the effect yet that can tell anything about long-term effects.

The better smell and taste, espescially the sweetness and renewed coolness factor has however had quite the impact on early smoking among adolescents. Regarding addiction and effects of energy drinks, yes they are bad. In fact, IFAIC there was a study posted on lemmy recently that showed how bad hightened coffeine intake is for teens. And I'd for one very much support a ban on energy drinks before the age of 16 or even 18 for all I care.

[–] TanteRegenbogen@feddit.org 1 points 3 hours ago

It depends on what you mean by long term. Studies that observe patients for over ten years already exist.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

As I mentioned earlier, the bases of the juice have been used since the 50's. And is also used in asthma inhalers. So it is false to claim the long term effect is unknown.
The nicotine is also pretty well known, and is not a major carcinogen. All that remain is the flavor, where there may be minimal risk, but they too are known enough to be good grade, and we'll enough to mass produce and workers working with that every day.

So that part is mostly an argument from ignorance, which is unfortunately what we see regarding vaping about 99% of the time.

Again you call it early smoking, which is false. Vaping is not smoking. And there is no evidence that vaping leads to smoking. The whole gateway drug is a huge mistake that is often repeated but has zero evidence.