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Primary school-age children hospitalised due to vaping

1 min read Children's dentistry Alcohol and tobacco
A Sky News investigation revealed “15 cases” in which children aged nine or under were admitted to hospital in the last 12 months. In 2022 there were 12 cases, and only two cases in 2021.

Professor Andy Bush, a paediatric chest physician at the Royal Brompton Hospital, said, "Young children are being exposed to substances of addiction, substances that are toxic and some of the toxicity is not known.

"It's a jungle… we just do not know what is in most of these things.

"If a teenager starts smoking cigarettes, probably the worst that's going to happen to them is they're going to be sick and throw up behind the bike shed.

"The acute use of e-cigarettes can put them in hospital, can put them in intensive care, things like lung bleeding, lung collapse and air leak, the lungs filling up with fat."

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