What you should know about vaping and e-cigarettes | Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin

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🗓️ 15 May 2019

⏱️ 15 minutes

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E-cigarettes and vapes have exploded in popularity in the last decade, especially among youth and young adults -- from 2011 to 2015, e-cigarette use among high school students in the US increased by 900 percent. Biobehavioral scientist Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin explains what you're actually inhaling when you vape (hint: it's definitely not water vapor) and explores the disturbing marketing tactics being used to target kids. "Our health, the health of our children and our future generations is far too valuable to let it go up in smoke -- or even in aerosol," she says.

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0:00.0	This TED Talk features biobehavioral scientist Suchitra Krishna-Serrine, recorded live at TEDMed
0:08.2	2018.
0:11.2	It gets easier, right?
0:13.7	These are the words I often hear from young parents who are new to the game of worrying
0:18.2	about their children.
0:19.7	I tell them that it doesn't.
0:21.6	It gets different,
0:23.6	but there's always something to worry about as parents.
0:27.6	I remember how I would lie half awake at night,
0:30.6	listening to my son breathe when he was young and had asthma,
0:34.6	and then when he was a teen, until I heard the front door chime open,
0:38.6	and I knew that he was home safe.
0:41.6	Worrying about our kids comes with the territory.
0:44.8	Now, many of these worries are about basic issues,
0:48.2	like what they eat, where they are, who they are with.
0:51.9	But we also need to keep an eye on new behaviors and fads.
0:57.0	The latest craze is something that may not yet be on everyone's radar
1:01.0	as a serious health concern,
1:03.0	and that is the newfound popularity of vaping,
1:07.0	or inhaling sweet aerosols produced by vaporizing e-liquids in e-cigrets.
1:13.2	E-cigarettes are vapes, as they are commonly called, are flying off the shelves like candy.
1:18.9	This year, the e-cigret market is expected to drive $26 billion in sales worldwide.
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