Maynard, Hayden.

"Will Social Media Help Or Hurt Your College And Career

Goals?". The New York Times, 2017,

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/24/learning/will-social-media-help-or-hurt-

your-college-and-career-goals.html?auth=login-

google1tap&login=google1tap&rref=collection%2Fcolumn%2Flearning-

student-opinion. Accessed 4 Nov 2021.

At a confirmation hearing Wednesday, President Trump's nominee for Food and Drug

Administration commissioner, Dr. Stephen M. Hahn, refused to answer questions from

senators from both parties about whether he would fight for a ban on flavoured vaping

devices. Dr. Hahn, a cancer executive with no Washington or governance experience, was

thrust into the middle of a political debate over the rise in adolescent vaping and the

appearance of unexplained vaping-related ailments that have killed at least 44 people and

sickened more than 2,000. THC-related drugs have been blamed for the majority of

respiratory ailments recorded in recent months. The Trump administration recently

backtracked on a September commitment to prohibit most flavoured e-cigarette products,

citing worries about the consequences on companies and voter backlash.

Richtel, Matt. "Teen Marijuana Vaping Soars, Displacing Other Habits (Published

2019)". Nytimes.Com, 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/18/health/teen-

drug-use.html.

Government surveys show that teens are abstaining from alcohol and tobacco use and using

harder drugs at lower rates than in previous years. There has, however, been a dramatic rise

in the use of marijuana and nicotine. The Monitoring the Future survey, the results of which

were released on Wednesday, revealed a slew of new patterns. National Institute on Drug

Abuse's (NIDA) yearly study of eighth, eleventh, and twelve-year-olds is known as

Monitoring the Future. Drug use and experimenting among young people is on the increase,

according to the poll. Among the most disturbing findings in this year's study was a dramatic

rise in marijuana vaping. Vaping marijuana in the prior month was reported by 14 percent of

12th grade pupils, almost double the 7.5% who reported it the previous year. Students in

eighth school, tenth grade, and twelve grade reported vaping marijuana once or more in the

previous year at a rate of 7 percent, 19.4 percent, and 20.8 percent, respectively.

Goniewicz, Maciej Lukasz et al. High Exposure To Nicotine Among Adolescents Who

Use Juul And Other Vape Pod Systems (‘Pods’). 2021.

All of the evaluated products had high nicotine concentrations ranging from 21.8 mg/mL to

56.2 mg/mL in the form of a salt with benzoic acid (nicotine benzoate) or levulinic acid

(nicotine levulinate) dissolved in a propylene glycol/vegetable glycerin combination. Public

health activists and regulatory authorities must move immediately to prevent teenage access

to e-cigarettes before decades of achievement in tobacco control is undone. Pods are tiny,

lightweight, ultraportable and simple to use inconspicuously. The popularity of these devices

has grown in the last year, most notably with one brand, Juul. Parents, schools, and the

general public are rightly worried about youth use of Juul and comparable products

('juuling'). However, to present, there are no statistics on nicotine exposure among kids who

use pod systems.