US EditionThe Hidden Dangers of Vaping: What You Need to Know
- On May 30, 2025, coinciding with World No Tobacco Day, the WHO issued a report urging authorities worldwide to prohibit all flavorings in tobacco and nicotine items to help shield young people from addiction and related health risks.
- This call responds to evidence that flavours like menthol and bubble gum mask tobacco harshness, increase youth appeal, and promote lifelong addiction.
- The report highlights that flavours and accessories, such as capsule filters, circumvent regulations and target young people with candy-like packaging and marketing.
- WHO Director-General Tedros emphasized that flavored tobacco products are driving increased addiction and called for their prohibition, while highlighting that tobacco causes approximately 8 million deaths each year.
- WHO warns that without strong global bans on flavoured products, the tobacco epidemic driven by appealing additives will persist and continue harming youth health.
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The Hidden Dangers of Vaping: What You Need to Know
By Dr. Jaisingh Rajput Once marketed as a safer alternative to smoking, vaping has become a growing health concern—especially among youth and young adults. What may seem like harmless flavored vapor is now linked to serious lung damage, nicotine addiction, and long-term health consequences. What Is Vaping? Vaping involves inhaling aerosol, often called vapor, produced by an e-cigarette or similar device. These devices heat a liquid that usually …
WHO calls for urgent action to ban flavoured tobacco, nicotine products - EnviroNews - latest environment news, climate change, renewable energy
On World No Tobacco Day, the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday, May 30, 2025, launched a new publication and called on governments to urgently ban all flavours in tobacco and nicotine products, including cigarettes, pouches, hookahs and e-cigarettes, to protect youth from addiction and disease. Nicotine and Tobacco Flavours like menthol, bubble gum and cotton candy are masking the harshness of tobacco and nicotine products turning toxic…
Urgent action needed to ban flavoured tobacco, nicotine products: WHO
New Delhi: Urgent action is needed to ban flavoured tobacco and nicotine products that are increasingly being disguised as safer alternatives and deliberately targeted at children and adolescents, said the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday, ahead of World No Tobacco Day. World No Tobacco Day is observed every year on May 31. The theme this year "Bright products. Dark intentions. Unmasking the Appeal" sheds light on the concealed risks o…
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