Concerns Regarding the Use of Electronic Cigarettes Among Teens – Radio Report 3

The consumption of the electronic cigarette continues to generate an alarm, especially after the first case of a young person admitted to an Avellaneda hospital was known as a result of the consumption of this product.

In this context, Verónica Schoj, National Director of Health Promotion and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases, warned that data on the use of e-cigarettes among adolescents are "disturbing".

"7% of boys, aged 13 to 15, said they consume these products.While traditional smoking is down, today, 16% of boys of the same age smoke cigarettes while they are smoking cigarettes. 10 years ago 22%, but now there are 7% who smoke electronic cigarettes, "he told Chain 3.

Although his sale was banned by a provision of ANMAT, Schoj said that young people accessed it via different places or via the Internet and had insisted on strengthening control mechanisms.

The importation, the sale is illegal and it is forbidden to smoke in closed places like any cigarette. If you take out an electronic cigarette in a bar, you must turn it off.

Schoj recalled that "the electronic cigarette has carcinogens and nicotine" and felt that "young people have little knowledge on the subject"

"Many have said that they did not know that he had nicotine and that it's a way to become an addict.This is a gateway to nicotine addiction," he said. he declared.

In the same vein, he stated that the boys were beginning to consume "thinking it was less harmful" because it was steam but as he was points out "this is not steam".

This is not a vaping, it's an aerosol with carcinogens, it's a different way of smoking and it's promoted with the same arguments as before with light cigarettes, with the concept that it was less harmful, but that's not the case.

In addition, he highlighted the law passed last week in Córdoba on the prohibition of the full promotion and sponsorship of all tobacco, even in sales outlets.

Interview with Miguel Clariá