Better for you than smoking? More dangerous for your health than cigarettes? Or do you just not know?
The Public Health team at South Tyneside Council has launched a new online survey to try and find out more about what young people in the borough think about vaping.
It is estimated that 5% of teenagers in the North-East regularly use e-cigarettes, 15% higher than the national average. Girls are more likely to vape in the region, with 7% regularly vaping, compared to 4% of boys.
Youth vaping is on the rise too; recent research has shown that the proportion of 11 to 17-year-old e-cigarette users doubled from 3.3% in 2021 to 7.6% in 2023 nationally.
Read an article about this here: https://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/north-east-among-top-uk-hotspots-for-youth-vaping-according-to-data-4525429
The short questionnaire will only take a few minutes to complete and can be found here.
Please take part and help the team improve information for young people about the dangers of vaping.
