Overview
- Sixty-eight of the Netherlands’ 78 emergency departments joined the LUMC-led, nationwide 24-hour study on November 13–14.
- All presenting patients were asked about cigarette, vape and snus use, completed a questionnaire, and were offered brief stop-smoking advice with referrals when appropriate.
- Data collection has finished, with hospitals expecting to publish results in about a month after analysis.
- Emergency clinicians report seeing increasingly younger patients with severe lung and cardiovascular complaints they associate with nicotine use.
- Trimbos figures show one in four pupils aged 12–16 has tried a vape, 4% vape daily, and a third of daily vapers also smoke, reinforcing concerns about adolescent exposure.