After paradise gas, another dangerous fad is gaining popularity among teenagers - students buy and use nicotine packets known as "snus". The product looks like chewing gum, but is prohibited for sale to minors.

Popular mobile apps, however, abound with videos of teenagers openly demonstrating how to use nicotine packs, inducing euphoria and vertigo, but with dangerous health consequences for teens.

Already at the beginning of the new school year, the director of the capital's 119th school noticed the new fashion among some students.

"The older students started showing them, then handing them out and at first I couldn't tell what it was - it looks like gum, but unfortunately it has a high nicotine content - in reality one use of such gum is equivalent to three cigarettes, smoked at the same time," said Diyan Stamatov - director of the 119th SU "Acad. Mikhail Arnaudov".

A quick look at TikTok shows videos of teenagers demonstrating the use and impact of these packs. There we also find the channel of Dr. Taner Shahin, who makes health education videos. One of the most viewed is about the harm of nicotine. According to him, fashion packages can be dangerous.

"Excessive use can lead to intoxication. It's important to know, everyone's brain continues to develop until they're over 20 years old, and nicotine can be extremely dangerous to children's developing brains, as it potentially damages areas that control attention, learning, and remembering," says Dr. r Shahin.

With the permission of this 14-year-old boy's parents, he tries to buy snus from a cigarette and liquor store. He fails at the particular store because he is not 18, but his peers know a loophole.

"I have friends who give money to nearer golems and buy from them," says another boy.

"The use of nicotine products such as snus, nicotine gum, etc. it's basically to treat smoking addictions and the paradox here is that such fads towards teenagers are pushing them towards future addictions,” says Dr Shaheen.

According to Diyan Stamatov, in order to prevent these products from reaching children, strict control over traders is necessary.

"The only thing we can do in the school is to inform the students about the harm, to inform the parents about the consequences that could happen, but unfortunately the blame remains in the school again, because these products are used in school and the action of them instantly reflects on the student's behavior," says Stamatov.

Stamatov pointed out that the school cannot impose large sanctions on students who carry snus with them in the classrooms. According to him, prevention is the most important.

Source : budnaera