This is alarming as nicotine is highly addictive, and particularly harms the developing adolescent brain, affecting attention, learning, mood, and impulse control, increasing the risk for future addiction to other drugs, and worsening mental health outcomes
It is also illegal to buy or sell e-cigarettes online if you are under 18 years old
In some late-generation devices, users can increase the heating temperature and therefore, modify the aerosol composition by increasing up to 2.5-fold the nicotine, formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, and acetone content as well as carbonyl compounds 2 , 7 , 12 , 13
A chi-square test was employed to examine the associations between e-cigarette use, socio-demographic variables, and participants beliefs about e-cigarettes