Vaping increased the risk for asthma among adolescents in Texas and across the United States who had never smoked conventional tobacco products, according to a study published in Preventive Medicine.
These findings highlight the need for public health strategies to tackle increases in e-cigarette use among adolescents, Taehyun Roh, PhD, assistant professor in the department of epidemiology and biostatistics at the School of Public Health of Texas A&M University, and colleagues wrote.
“There has been a significant increase in vaping among middle and high school students in the U.S.,