What’s is making the students hooked to vaping? Why are they becoming nicotine Addicts to E cigarettes

In four years at cape Elizabeth high school in Maine  a carpenter says he can’t recall seeing a single student smoke a cigarette. But vaping is suddenly every where. It’s our demon he said. 

It’s the one risky thing that you can do in your life with little consequence in their mind to show that you’re a little a bit of a rebel.

Schools say the problem sneaked up on them last fall, when students arrived with a new generation of easily concealed devices that have a sleek high tech design. 

Tasting like fruit or mint, these devices produce little telltale plume, making it possible for some students to even vape even in class.

E- cigarettes are widely considered safer than traditional cigarettes, but they are new for researchers to understand the long term health effects, making today’s youth what public health experts call a guinea pig generation.

School and health officials say several officials say several things are clear though: nicotine is highly addictive, the pods in vaping devices have a higher concentration of nicotine than do individual cigarettes, and a growing body of research indicates that vaping is leading more adolescents to try cigarettes.

E - cigarettes deliver nicotine through a liquid that is heated into vapour and inhaled, cutting out the cancer causing tar of combustible cigarettes. But caping liquid contains additives such as propylene glycol and glycerol that can form carcinogenic compounds when they are heated.

A study published in the journal paediatrics in March found substantially increased levels of five carcinogenic compounds in the urine of teenagers who vape.