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Newer vape pens still trigger urge to smoke, study finds

People using the larger, new generation “vape pens” trigger the same urge to smoke among other smokers as traditional tobacco cigarettes, a study in Nicotine and Tobacco Research has found.1

First generation electronic cigarettes were designed to closely resemble traditional cigarettes. However, the newer, second generation electronic nicotine delivery systems, known as vape pens, are bulkier, and it was hoped that they might not stimulate the same urge to smoke.

The study leader, Andrea King, professor of psychiatry and behavioural neuroscience and director of the clinical addictions research laboratory at the University of Chicago, USA, said, “Vape pens look different, …