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Revealed: How vaping is leaving children as young as nine with severe and chronic breathing problems - and why doctors fear it's a gateway

Daily Mail Health · 18 October 2026 at 01:08

Revealed: How vaping is leaving children as young as nine with severe and chronic breathing problems - and why doctors fear it's a gateway

It's an epidemic that any parent will be aware of.

Cheap, colourful and creating sickly-sweet flavoured puffs of steam, e-cigarettes, or vapes, are now a mainstay of the British teen experience.

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Revealed: How vaping is leaving children as young as nine with severe and chronic breathing problems - and why doctors fear it's a gateway

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