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13-04-2024 | Editorial

I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure: doctors’ role in the vaping epidemic

Authors: Frank J. Borm, Sophie Cohen, Gregorio P. Milani, Peter de Winter, Danielle Cohen

Published in: European Journal of Pediatrics | Issue 6/2024

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Teachers at high schools in the Netherlands have gained a new task: monitoring restrooms. They enter during breaks and between classes and consistently find groups of students in toilet stalls enveloped in a sweet cloud of peach, strawberry or banana toffee pie scent. Within 7 s, the high-dose nicotine rushes from their lungs to their brains, fulfilling the enormous craving they were experiencing for the last hour. In every school in the Netherlands – perhaps every school in Europe – there are students addicted to e-cigarettes. It’s forbidden, but forbidden fruits have always tasted the best to teenagers, and with high doses of nicotine involved, the temptation is impossible to resist. If you think back to your 13-year-old self, could you have resisted lemon meringue pie flavor packaged in a brightly colored, high-tech device? …

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Title: I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure: doctors’ role in the vaping epidemic
Authors: Frank J. Borm
Sophie Cohen
Gregorio P. Milani
Peter de Winter
Danielle Cohen
Publication date: 13-04-2024
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: European Journal of Pediatrics / Issue 6/2024
Print ISSN: 0340-6199
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1076
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00431-024-05548-w

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