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Teens using e-cig devices not just for nicotine

A recent analysis of the 2015 Monitoring the Future (MTF) findings on e-cigarette use highlights uncertainty about what teens are actually inhaling when using „e-cig” devices, and at least six percent report they are using the vaporizers to inhale marijuana. The analysis was done by the University of Michigan researchers who conduct the annual MTF survey, funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health. Of the students in 8th, 10th and 12th grade who said they had ever used a vaporizer device: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently expanded its tobacco regulatory authority to include e-cigarettes; however the study authors concluded that: While... [Read more]

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