Nicotine in their notebooks: The rise of teen vaping in Bengaluru
In Bengaluru, the vape market for school students doesn’t operate in the open. It doesn’t have to. Students aged 16 and 17 have built an access system that’s decentralised, informal, and disturbingly efficient – one that runs through Telegram menus, backroom shop counters, and entire networks of teenagers who know how to ask, whom to ask, and exactly what they’re paying for.
Vaping involves the inhalation of vapour from an electronic device, © newslaundry
