At least 15 million people aged 13 to 15 years use e-cigarettes worldwide, with young people on average nine times more likely to add than adults with data, the World Health Organization said on Monday.
In the first global estimate of the use of e-cigarettes, The Who said that more than 100 million people worldwide now vapen, including at least 86 million adults, usually in a high income.
The figures come if the worldwide tobacco use continues to fall, with the number of tobacco users fall to 1.2 billion in 2024 of 1.38 billion in 2000.
Since the regulations forever help stricter regulations to lower the use of the tobacco, the industry has turned to alternative products such as Vapes to compensate for sale.
Tobacco companies say they focus on adult smokers, strive to help them stop and reduce the damage of the traditional tobacco.
But e-cigarettes send a “new wave of nicotine addiction,” said Etienne Krug, director of the WHO department for health determinants, promotion and prevention.
“They are put on the market as a damage limit, but in reality they are rather hooking children on nicotine and undermining the risk of decades of progress.”
Governments and health authorities are struggling with balancing potential benefits and risks of e-cigarettes, namely admission by new nicotine users.
On the other hand, some research has meant e-cigarettes effectively to help smokers stop.
An assessment of Cochrane’s evidence, a non-profit network of health researchers, showed that smokers were more likely to stop e-cigarettes than traditional patches or gums.
But it also warned that more information was needed and the health effects remained unclear in the longer term.
The decrease in traditional tobacco use varied sharply per region. Male tobacco prevalence in Southeast Asia almost halved to 37% in 2024 of 70% in 2000, accounting for more than half of the global decline.
Europe now has the highest tobacco prevalence worldwide at 24.1%, with its wives involved in the world’s highest female tobacco use at 17.4%.
The WHO warned that almost one in five adults worldwide still uses tobacco products, and called for stronger enforcement of tobacco control measures and regulation of new nicotine products such as Vapen.
