General Article ‘Beside himself with craving’: the teenagers hooked on vaping

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One mother says son loved mountain biking but a year later ‘he’s not interested – he runs out of breath’.

By Clea Skopeliti

When Sarah caught her 13-year-old son vaping in his room last year, he tried a classic teenage line on her. ‘He said: “It’s not mine, it’s my friend’s,”’ remembers the teacher from West Yorkshire. ‘I said: “Yeah, pull the other one, it’s got bells on.”’

Liam*, now 14, first tried vaping with two friends after one of them sneaked a parent’s vape. ‘They’d been watching vid...

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