Biniam Kidane, Shana Kahnamoui, Sadeesh Srinathan, Richard Liu, Lawrence Tan, Melanie Morris, Anna Shawyer, Andrew J. Halayko, Christopher D. Pascoe
European Respiratory Journal 2024 63: 2301623; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01623-2023 

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Approximately one in 10 adolescents use e-cigarette devices, with 25% of these reporting daily use [1]. Most youth who vape have never used traditional cigarettes, creating an emerging epidemic of nicotine addiction fuelled by use of e-cigarettes [2]. Public perception is that e-cigarettes are less harmful than traditional cigarettes, a belief that may be fuelled, in part, by a handful of tobacco industry-funded studies reporting null results in cells or animals, replicating past misinformation campaigns about traditional cigarettes [3].