Geneva: Sleek-looking disposable e-cigarettes and candy-flavoured nicotine pouches are among a range of new products targeting young people and fuelling a new wave of tobacco and nicotine addiction, the WHO warned Monday.

Speaking at the opening of a global conference on tobacco control, World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus decried that surging numbers of children were being drawn to the new products.

"Schools are the new frontline in the war against tobacco and nicotine, where companies are actively recruiting generations of addicts," he warned.

A WHO report released last month estimated that nearly 15 million teens globally now use e-cigarettes, he told the 11th meeting of state parties to the WHO's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC).

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