Instagram a fertile ground for promoting vaping to young users

London: Facebook-owned Instagram has become a fertile ground for e-cigarette companies to promote vaping to young people, an artificial intelligence (AI)-based study has revealed. By using AI, researchers from Aalto university in Finland were able to analyse hundreds of thousands of posts from a six-month period, and found that a large portion of posts are promoting controversial flavoured e-liquids to young audiences. “While print...