13.04.2024 | Editorial
I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure: doctors’ role in the vaping epidemic
verfasst von:
Frank J. Borm, Sophie Cohen, Gregorio P. Milani, Peter de Winter, Danielle Cohen
Erschienen in:
European Journal of Pediatrics
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Excerpt
Teachers at high schools in the Netherlands have gained a new task: monitoring restrooms. They enter during breaks and between classes and consistently find groups of students in toilet stalls enveloped in a sweet cloud of peach, strawberry or banana toffee pie scent. Within 7 s, the high-dose nicotine rushes from their lungs to their brains, fulfilling the enormous craving they were experiencing for the last hour. In every school in the Netherlands – perhaps every school in Europe – there are students addicted to e-cigarettes. It’s forbidden, but forbidden fruits have always tasted the best to teenagers, and with high doses of nicotine involved, the temptation is impossible to resist. If you think back to your 13-year-old self, could you have resisted lemon meringue pie flavor packaged in a brightly colored, high-tech device? …
