Study Finds Discreet Shipping Used to Sell E-Cigarettes to Minors uark.edu - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from uark.edu Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Researchers analysed hundreds of posts on the Chinese video-sharing app to identify hashtags that indicate addictive and potentially dangerous e-cigarettes are being sold alongside innocent items.
A new paper in Nicotine and Tobacco Research shows that advertising and sales of vaping products is common on TikTok, the video sharing platform popular among teenagers. Users pushing these items often use hashtags like #puffbundles to disguise vaping products by including things like lip gloss and candy in the packages for sale.