Use during pregnancy increases risk for preeclampsia, premature birth, and low birth weight
While the federal legal age to buy vapes in the United States is 21, some states had laws allowing the sale of vaping products to people 18 and older before the federal law was passed
RIVM has published data containing the TNCO contents provided by manufacturers for cigarettes that are on the Dutch market in 2023
Younger adults are more likely to be aware of vape promotion in all settings than older adults, particularly online when they are 4 times as likely to be aware of promotion if they are 18-24 than 55 or over (36% versus 8%, Figure 50)
I think sometimes legislators dont think through the ways people can avoid these things as much. (The Department of Revenues chief economist, Kazim Ozyurt, made a similar point in a presentation before the Illegal Tobacco Commission in November: Tax avoidance appears to be unavoidable in general, one of his slides began, before detailing ways to mitigate it.) In this view, figuring out the right place to set a cigarette tax is less a matter of simply passing a law, and more about finding the right balance among public health, budget needs, and crime
