Vaping has overtaken cigarettes as the dominant nicotine risk for young people. The 2025 Monitoring the Future survey of 24,000+ US students confirms what schools have been seeing for years: 31% of Half as many Britons' vape as smoke 5 Vaping Facts You Need to Know Johns Hopkins Medicine Teenagers who vape sweet flavoured e cigarettes more likely to stick with habit, study claims The Independent The Independent Young people who vape are 3 times more likely to take up smoking cigarettes. Vaping can lead to lung damage and can be harmful for young brains, which are still developing until Is vaping better than smoking? Or is vaping worse than smoking?