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Addictive vape products surge in popularity among teenagers

"We were in the midst of a growing epidemic"

by Deb Parker, Richard H. Weiss & Sally J. AltmanMarch 4, 2020

A woman exhales a cloud of vapor from an e-cigarette

Originally published in Outlook magazine under the title “E-cig epidemic.”

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