The Hottest New Vaping Trend Is Vaping Bans

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Center for Tobacco Products reports that vaping-product sales in the U.S. climbed to $1.7 billion in 2013. Industry experts predict that e-cigarette sales will overtake traditional tobacco sales within 10 years.

Like everything else about smoking, though, the truth about vaping appears to be awful. There's evidence that smokers who vape exhale an ultrafine-particle mist of volatile organic compounds, known carcinogens, and other chemicals that may be harmful to themselves and others around them, according to a new study from the journal Nicotine and Tobacco Research. Scientists and activists call this vapor an "aerosol," which sounds significantly worse for mainstream and second-hand smokers than cool, misty water vapor.