Vaping, mainstream, has been pegged as starting in 2003 with a Chinese dude.
That is fairly short term for lung problems to begin to show up.
So, how long did it take for cigarettes to be widely acknowledged as cancer causing? This is just the beginning, and you don’t care how many will die early due to vaping. 95% of this product is produced in China.
Since their entrance to the market in 2003,
[83] global use has risen
exponentially.
[109] In a 2014 survey, about 13% of American high school students reported using them at least once in the previous month,
[110] and in 2015 around 10% of American adults were users.
[111] In the UK, users have increased from 700,000 in 2012 to 2.6 million in 2015.
[112] About 60% of UK users are smokers and about 40% are ex-smokers, while use among never-smokers in the UK is negligible.
[112] Most still use traditional cigarettes, raising concern that dual use may "delay or deter quitting".
[1] Most peoples' reason for using e-cigarettes involve trying to quit smoking, though a large proportion use them
recreationally.
[80] It is commonly stated that the modern e-cigarette was invented in 2003 by Chinese pharmacist
Hon Lik, but tobacco companies had been developing nicotine aerosol generation devices since as early as 1963.
[113] As of 2018, 95% of e-cigarettes were made in China.
[65] Because of overlap with tobacco laws and medical drug policies,
e-cigarette legislation is being debated in many countries.
[114] The revised EU
Tobacco Products Directive came into effect in May 2016, providing stricter regulations for e-cigarettes.
[115] As of August 2016, the US FDA extended its regulatory power to include e-cigarettes.
[116]Large tobacco companies have greatly increased their
marketing efforts.
[2] As of 2014, there were 466
brands of e-cigarettes,
[117] with global sales of around
$7 billion.
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