Key Points for Understanding
Cigarettes, e-cigarettes, nicotine pouches, snus, or heated tobacco: the products and ways of using them are changing rapidly. It’s not always easy to make sense of it all or to distinguish facts from myths.
Here are the key points to help you better understand the realities young people face.
Recognizing and Understanding Products
Cigarettes or vapes? Puff, snus, or snuff? The names may sound similar, but the products, their ingredients, and how they’re used differ.
Learn how to recognize them and discover, for each one, how it works, its risks, its use among young people, and the applicable legal framework.
Have a question? A specific situation?
It’s not always easy to know what to say or how to react when a young person is using drugs. Find clear and nuanced answers to situations that may arise within the family, at school, during leisure activities, or in social work.
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