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Electronic vapor devices have been promoted as a healthier nicotine- based alternative to cigarettes. However, federal and state health officials have investigated hundreds of cases of vaping-related lung disease in otherwise-healthy young people.

The marketing group Euromonitor believes that the number of adults who vape will rise even higher to hit 55 million by the year 2021. By comparison, the number of cigarette smokers worldwide has been slowly but steadily decreasing. In 2000, about 1.14 billion people around the world smoked cigarettes. By 2016, the number of smokers had dropped by about 40 million. Many of those former cigarette smokers have switched to vaping. The rapidly expanding popularity of the market is also driven by teenagers, who prefer vaping to smoking cigarettes. In 2018, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that nationwide, 42 percent of U.S. students had used an electronic vapor product (including e-cigarettes, e-cigars, e-pipes, vape pipes, vaping pens, e-hookahs, and hookah pens) at least once during the past year. The CDC projected in its annual Youth Risk Behavior Survey that more than 60 percent of students would try vaping by twelfth

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