One out of every five high school students currently vapes in the U.S. and in the U.K., 7% of kids aged 11 to 17 now vape.
And that number has nearly doubled in the last two years, so currently more young people vape than smoke cigarettes.
But with the news of vape deaths amongst young people, the insane chemical flavoring and lack of regulation amongst new vapes, could science now say that vaping is worse than cigarettes?
To start, the nicotine in vapes hits your bloodstream and brain faster than cigarettes.
This is because vapes consist of a coil that ranges from 110°C to 1000°C, which creates thermal conditions for a carrier like propylene glycol, which is literally stage smoke.
Yes, when you are vaping, you're inhaling like Taylor Swift stage smoke right into your lungs.
Mixed with an active ingredient, most commonly nicotine and chemical flavorings, the vape smoke hits your lungs in a way that studies show ushers nicotine faster into your bloodstream and brain than cigarettes.
Another study found that the sheer way that people like hit vapes like so hard, bro.
Each puff gives you more nicotine in vapes than in cigarettes.
And nicotine is an intense drug.
