Topical issues of an applied vaping research

The authors study the history and origins of vaping as a mass social phenomenon. Currently, users of electronic cigarettes and similar devices are divided into two segments: traditional smokers who switched to electronic cigarettes or combining them and new smokers who chose electronic cigarettes because of fashion, communication, entertainment, etc. It turns out that vaping is a social phenomenon that follows not only from one the desire to find an alternative to smoking. A large-scale discussion regarding vaping has unfolded in special scientific publications and in the media. It can be considered not only as a youth culture direction or trend, but also as a new unfavorable factor that strikes at the health of younger generations. All the existing deep and large-scale discrepancies in the content, place and role of vaping in modern society are certainly theoretical, and partly rhetorical. Without reinforcement by quantitative characteristics of its most diverse aspects, it is impossible to give a practical assessment of such a specific phenomenon. Applied vaping research is based on a set of exact indicators combined into a single and logically sound system that allows you to get a comprehensive idea of the object of cognition. The article presents the content of three existing independent sections of the system of vaping statistics indicators. The authors propose indicators that reveal the section of indicators of the effects of vaping. The possibilities of applied analysis of the consequences of the spread of electronic cigarettes in modern society are assessed.

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