Disposable vapes are designed for maximum addiction and minimum accountability. Part of the appeal of disposable vapes is that they are often more easily accessible and cheaper than refillable devices, said Carolina Saavedra, a staff attorney with the Public Health Law Center at the Mitchell Hamline School of Law in Minnesota
Instead, for the new study, the researchers looked at what tobacco or nicotine product youths used first
However, of those only one in four flavour vapers used menthol meaning it represented no more than 2% of all students
According to the survey, which is conducted annually by the FDA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, most of the e-cigarettes used are disposables. Disposable e-cigarettes are only intended to be used one time before throwing them out, according to the national Tobacco Education Resource Library
Nicotine is the drug itself, and is commonly associated with cigarettes