The impact of electronic smoking devices on the state of periodontal tissues in young people

Abstract

Smoking is the most common harmful habit in the world, which has become an epidemic among men, women and children. [1] In Ukraine, the situation with smoking is assessed by WHO experts as critical, since more than 500 thousand young people join this habit annually.[2] Ukraine ranks 17th in the world in cigarette consumption. The fact that tobacco smoking is very common among adolescents and children, in whom nicotine addiction occurs quite quickly, is of concern: every third teenager aged 12-14 and every second teenager over 15 smokes cigarettes. About 80% of people start smoking before the age of 18 [3].