Doctors and anti-smoking advocates across Bahrain are calling for urgent awareness campaigns and packaging that reflects health risks to discourage young people from vaping, as a major international study found strong evidence that it is linked to smoking initiation, substance use, respiratory illnesses and mental health damage.
The ‘Vaping and harm in young people: umbrella review’, published in the peer-reviewed journal Tobacco Control, concluded that young people who use e-cigarettes are approximately three times more likely to take up smoking than those who do not .
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