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Vietnam worried about rising e-cigarette use among teenagers

OsunDailyBy OsunDailyApril 26, 2023No Comments2 Mins Read
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Vietnam has recorded rising poisoning cases due to e-cigarettes and heated cigarette products.ย 

The Vietnam News reported this on Wednesday.

The Health Ministryโ€™s Medical Examination and Treatment Department noted a concerning uptake of electronic nicotine delivery and heated tobacco products among young people.

It said this after several students were admitted to the emergency room for nicotine poisoning and other harmful substances found in e-cigarettes and heated cigarettes.

โ€œUsing nicotine during adolescence can cause harm to the parts of the brain that control attention, learning ability and mood,โ€ Nguyen Tuan Lam, an expert from the World Health Organisation in Vietnam, told Vietnam News. โ€œIt can also increase the risks of addiction to other substances in the future.โ€

E-cigarettes and heated cigarettes also pose potential risks and contribute to social evils, such as drug abuse and other addictive behaviours, which adversely affect the health and lifestyle of adolescents, the health ministry warned.

This is despite a slight reduction of people who smoked tobacco in 2022, down 0.8 per cent from 2015.

Vietnam is ranked third among Southeast Asian countries with the highest smoking prevalence, only after Indonesia and the Philippines, according to the health authorities.

The country is now faced with additional challenges in its fight against smoking as the prevalence of e-cigarettes among Vietnamese teens has increased in recent years among 13 to 15-year-olds.

About 3.5 per cent were reported to use e-cigarettes in 2022, up from 2.6 per cent in 2019, according to a report by the ministries of health and education.

The authorities also recorded e-cigarette use among adolescents and young adults, with about seven in 100 aged between 15 and 24 years old using e-cigarettes.

The World Health Organisation has recommended that e-cigarettes are more harmful than traditional cigarettes and can cause premature health effects or interstitial lung disease, which progresses rapidly and has a worse prognosis than lung cancer.

The health ministry last November proposed a ban on all new-generation tobacco products, including e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products.

(Xinhua/NAN)


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