Steam Punks

What happens when you give kids a nicotine-filled, USB-charged device with a user interface that can simultaneously address the need to fidget and satisfy even the most rabid oral fixation? It gets popular, fast. From NPR: Teen Vaping Soared In 2018. “It was the biggest one-year spike of any kind in the 44 years the Monitoring the Future survey has been tracking substance abuse by young people.”

+ Vice: Teens are vaping more than ever. But they’re using other drugs way less.