One in five residents in Spain (20%) have smoked electronic cigarettes or vapers, especially in the 15 to 24 age group, according to the latest biennial survey on alcohol, drugs, and addictions (2024). The use of these devices, which heat a liquid (with or without nicotine) in various flavors, has risen rapidly in just a few years: in 2022, only 12% of the population had used them. Faced with this surge, healthcare professionals are sounding an alarm, taking as an example the case of a university student treated at the emergency service of the Hospital Clínic in Barcelona.

On Sunday night the 30 minutes went deeper into The new smoking about ways to induce nicotine consumption by avoiding the traditional act of smoking, which is increasingly restricted. Delving into the world's greatest vice par excellence is approaching the grotesque. Because this addiction has always had the ability to become normalized. The recovery of archival images from 1988 of a school teacher surprised and somewhat annoyed because he couldn't smoke in the playground is the perfect synthesis of the resistance to considering it a bad habit. Seeing images now of people smoking in schools, airplanes, restaurants, or offices, and seeing how banning it would involve controversy and hours of debate in the media, is shocking.