A QUARTER of university students are hooked on the UK’s most potent disposable vape pens, worrying figures present.
In addition to the 27 per cent addicted to Elfbars, 53 per cent mentioned they’d used one since September.
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Only one of the brightly colored plastic puffers — out there for as little as £3 every — has the identical nicotine content material as 48 cigarettes.
And whereas 45 per cent of students mentioned one pen lasts them every week or extra, 20 per cent get by way of one in 24 hours.
Scholar newspaper The Tab surveyed 18,000 kids from 24 universities.
It discovered Oxford Brookes had the most important proportion of scholar customers for the reason that begin of time period at 67 per cent, adopted by Lincoln (64), Newcastle and Bristol (each 61).
Coventry and Manchester had the best degree of students who mentioned they have been addicted.
Half of the Elfbar vapers had by no means smoked cigarettes and 41 per cent puff solely in social settings, whereas 36 per cent use them each day and 23 per cent not typically.
Well being psychology professor Dr Lion Shabbah informed The Tab: “It doesn’t shock me that more and more rather a lot of students could be utilizing Elfbars, however what does shock me although, is that rather a lot of them clearly have by no means smoked.
“We might have to pivot a bit in phrases of our method to how we cope with this.”
Elfbar was requested to remark.
