Teens Who Use E-cigs More Likely To Smoke Regular Cigarettes Later

The researchers want to warn the teens and their parents about the dangers of the e-cigarettes, as they are a factor that can push teens into tobacco smoking.

Also, even though the developers of the e-cigarettes promote them as a way to stop smoking tobacco, the researchers said that there is no evidence that the e-cigarettes can cure that habit.

Teens who use e-cigarettes may be more likely to switch to real cigarettes within a year, a new study suggests.

In fact, students who vaped at least once were three times more likely to try tobacco smoking a year later than those who never indulged in vaping at all.

China has gone a long way in its battle to reduce smoking in the past ten years but there is still much to do, a report said Tuesday.

Currently, there are more than 500 brands of e-cig and their marketing strategies makes them appear to the public that e-cigs are safe and will not cause any harm to health.

Electronic cigarettes consist of a cartridge containing a liquid with a nicotine concentration of 11 mg/mL and a battery powered heating element that evaporates the liquid, simulating the effect of smoking by producing an inhaled vapor that is less toxic than that of regular cigarettes.

“This suggests that e-cigarette use among adolescents is not without behavioural costs”, the study reads.

An additional analysis revealed that any level of e-cigarette use in 2013 was associated with smoking once or twice, or three or four times, by 2014.

In England in 2014, fewer than one in five 11 to 15-year-olds (18%) said they had smoked at least once, according to survey of more than 6,000 pupils – the lowest level recorded since the survey began in 1982.

“We followed the same people a year later and the finding was that people who used e-cigarettes were more likely to start smoking cigarettes a year later”, said Dr. Thomas Wills, interim director, UH Cancer Center’s Prevention and Control Program. Nevertheless, the researchers point out that their findings echo those of other studies looking at teen smoking behaviour.

The study comes as charity Cancer Research UK said the Government should make the tobacco industry pay for the damage it causes.

‘At a time when health budgets are stretched, this is a simple solution to a lethal problem.

The e-Voke, an e-cigarette produced by British American Tobacco, is now allowed to be marketed for smoking cessation, which means patients will be able to request the device from their GP from later this year. “We urge the Government to make the industry cough up”.

“We found a sample of high school students over one year and the question was looking at the people who initially were non-smokers”.

Among nonsmoking students who had vaped when they took an initial survey, 20 percent said they had smoked their first regular cigarette by the time they took the survey again a year later.

In 2012-2013, 1.9% of adults in the U.S. reported using e-cigarettes in the past 30 days.

‘However, if you look more closely at the paper any assumptions that one leads to the other are not supported, as is the case with previous studies’.