Teen vaping quit attempts nearly doubled after 2019 ads and lung injury coverage

MedicalXpress | 四月 26, 2026

Researchers from the University of California San Diego Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science have found that both anti-vaping advertising and widespread news coverage of a lung-injury outbreak tied to vaping—known as e-cigarette or vaping product use-associated lung injury (EVALI)—were critical in making 2019 a turning point in youth vaping prevalence in the United States.