According to one researcher, youth who are using vapes or are dual using [e-cigarettes and cigarettes] are at elevated risk, and its not just a small increase in risk
September 2025 The Hidden Environmental Catastrophe: Cigarette Butts as Microplastic Time Bomb Imagine this: Every second, approximately 10 million cigarette butts are carelessly discarded worldwide
Heat burns through e-liquid more quickly and can degrade flavor
This isn't a vague health promise
Figures for 2018 have not yet been released
They spent 75 hours learning how to tell the difference between tobacco (which can smell of green pepper, sweetcorn, violet, saffron, or rotted dry wood) and flavor additives (more likely to be fruity, minty, or redolent of vanilla or marzipan), before being set to work sniffing the tobacco in question