Well-known doctors have started a TikTok account together, where they raise the alarm about vaping young people on the social medium. With videos in which tiktokers smoke an e-cigarette, the young people are advertising the tobacco industry, the doctors warn.
“Showing vapes inspires others to vape too,” says IC doctor Diederik Gommers in a TikTok video. It leads to addiction and disease, other doctors continue. “We raise the alarm as doctors to prevent us from seeing you later in our consultation hours.”
The doctors want to talk to a number of Dutch tiktokers via the TikTok account. They can also sometimes be seen vaping on their account. “As a result, the influencers are normalizing vaping. They make it part of a certain lifestyle,” says pulmonologist Wanda de Kanter, chair of the youth smoking prevention group.
The doctors want the TikTok users to remove videos with their vapes again. “And if we succeed, we will soon be rid of TikTok. We promise.”
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