To refuse to let DD vape?

Hard no from me.

1. It's illegal to sell vapes to under 18s so how exactly is DD getting them? Find out, and report the shop.
2. How is DD paying for this?
3. Vapes are illegal for a reason. We don't know the long term effects yet but pumping artificial chemicals into your lungs cannot possibly have a health benefit
4. Your house your rules.

On one hand, you’re correct, there’s no causal link.

On the other, a 14 yo being socialised into addiction for no discernible reason, is dreadful. And I do think probably makes her more at risk of other addictions. At least getting high is fun. Vaping is simply addiction for its own sake. Batshit.

I vape, and I vape in the house. But it's your house so your choice whether you let her or not. I'd be pissed off she was vaping underage, and I'd be questioning where she gets them from, but also I've never been asked for ID in any vape shops other than one.

If you give her pocket money and this is how she's buying her vapes, stop giving her pocket money. If someone else is buying them for her, I'd be finding out who.

You said the same thing 3 times. Why? What was the point?

Vaping is so prolific and problematic amoungst teens. It is the new smoking. And in some ways worse. An unregulated market, which cares little for its users, and even less for the environment, and is intent on keeping users using- it is more comparable to the drugs industry tbh. Vaping is more addictive than smoking, largely because there is no natural stop (the end of a cigarette) nor social stigma- these kids are constantly drawing nicotine which leads to a reliance that imo is above and beyond that of smoking (now- when there is a societal judgement/ expectation - most would be ashamed of a twenty, let alone a forty sixty or eighty a day habit of cigs- rather than in the past when it was more the norm ) I certainly wouldn’t let mine do it at home.

Perhaps show her this article also

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/i-going-through-one-disposable-33101419.amp

If she is able to vape in her room then she will be sucking on that thing constantly. Her lungs aren’t even fully developed yet! At least when she has to walk down the street a bit to do it the mild inconvenience will mean it’s less frequent and doing (slightly) less damage to her body.

I don't know why anyone would be blasé about it - we have no idea of the long term effects of vaping on health, especially for young people.

The advice is that non-smokers, especially young people, should never use vapes.

I vaped for a short while and stopped about a year ago (I previously quit smoking 10 years ago and very stupidly slipped into vaping last year). To me it was sooo much more addictive because I would lie in bed or wherever in the house just constantly on it. It’s so much easier to just constantly use, and I got hooked very fast. For that reason alone I would make her go outside so she has to make the effort to physically get up to use it. It will definitely make her use it less.

I smoked 40 a day for 20 years, read Alan Carr's book and stopped. Vapers are more pathietuc than smokers IMO.

Good question. Back handers somewhere along the lines and that applies to governments of both political stripes.

I wouldn't be surprised if more teenagers are absorbing nicotine in one form or another now than at any point in the last 40 years.

I wouldn't let her. I started vaping to stop smoking and I really wish I hadn't! I certainly wouldn't make it easy for my child to do it.

Vapers are pathetic.

People say weed is the gateway drug to addiction,

This is such an old-fashioned 60's/70's bullshit argument.

Show me the scientific evidence.

Yup. And the government has let them do it . Other countries have cracked down on it much quicker. Why does ours always take so long to do anything.

Vaping is so sad. Anyone that vapes is a moron.

Also those nicotine pouches that apparently 1 in 8 teens have tried sound totally grim.

Where is she getting her money from?

I read just recently that vaping is worse than cigarette smoking.

I smoke.

Better than belching out car fumes. (I use public transport).

I'm a smoker and I agree with this. They've totally done a number on non smokers and kids, and I don't get it.

No. The vaping industry has managed to get millions of teenagers hooked on nicotine, it looks stupid, costing a small fortune and causing a lifelong addiction to nicotine.
People say weed is the gateway drug to addiction, I disagree, nicotine is the gateway drug.
Vaping is great for giving up smoking cigarettes but it is ridiculous that the marketing industry has managed to hook people who never smoked. Grown adults, non smokers, vaping. 🧐

Absolutely no from me. I don’t allow anyone to smoke or vale in my home let alone a teenager.

YANBU at all

What are you doing to stop the vaping? Where is she buying them from- have you reported the shop. I would be confiscating any I found too.

Vaping is a hard no for me. And she started at 14! I would not giving in and letting her vape anywhere near the house.