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Strict policies to limit vaping should be implemented especially to protect youth

* Studies included The most recent and largest official youth surveys in Australia, the US, England, New Zealand and Canada: A large survey by the World Health Organisation published in April 2024 from 44 countries in Europe, Central Asia and Canada (data collection 2021-2022), n=279,117 Note that direct comparisons between the surveys cant be made as they use different age ranges, definitions and are taken at different times

Moreover, flavouring agents such as diacetyl have been implicated in chronic respiratory conditions, and emerging studies suggest that chronic e-cigarette exposure may lead to DNA damage, impaired repair mechanisms, and oxidative stresshallmarks of carcinogenesis

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