Experts: Vaping can lead to drug-taking

Ridzuan Ahmad and a close friend of his started using a vape three years ago when they were just 15. Apparently, they became fascinated by vaping after seeing their friends, whom they hung out with at a park in Selangor, doing so.

What started as a seemingly harmless inhalation just to taste the liquid nicotine eventually developed into an addiction.

“My friend and I had never smoked before that. I don’t know for what reason we got the desire to vape but we decided to give it a try after our friends urged us to do so.

“I liked the taste (of the liquid nicotine or e-juice) and, I guess, became hooked. These days, if I don’t get to vape, my lips become dry and I feel emotionally unstable and angry,” Ridzuan told Bernama...