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The Alaska Dispatch News reports (http://bit.ly/1fusBcm ) that Alaska Division of Epidemiology bulletin released Thursday found that e-cigarette use rose from 1 percent in 2010 to 4 percent in 2013, the latest data available.

“E-cigarettes could be a game-changer in public health in particular by reducing the enormous health inequalities caused by smoking”, expresses study co-author professor Ann McNeil.

Director of pro-smoking Group, Simon Clark, said: “While it makes sense to encourage smokers to switch from combustible cigarettes to electronic cigarettes, public health campaigns should be based on education, not coercion and prohibition”. Their analysis showed those traits played a role but didn’t fully explain the link between e-cigarettes and later tobacco use.

“Renaming e-cigarettes is a silly idea”.

The researchers found that likelihood was very high among e-cigarettes users to smoke any combustible tobacco product.

It was also concluded that e-cigarettes do not act as a route into smoking for children or non-smokers.

Currently, vaping is treated as a safe alternative to smoking, but some lawmakers want to ban it from the same places cigarettes aren’t allowed. Bold marketing tactics, celebrity endorsements, endless flavor choices and a plethora of online videos instructing users on how to mix their own e-cigarette liquid, or “e-juice”, have only added fuel to the fire.

The study doesn’t prove that electronic cigarettes are a “gateway drug” but some doctors say it bolsters arguments that the devices should be strictly regulated as proposed by the Food and Drug Administration.

“We don’t promote a harm-reduction approach and we don’t promote just cutting back on the number of cigarettes because … we know that doesn’t change your overall risk of developing cancer”, he said.

While the study hints that more research is needed to determine if this association is merely casual, it’s important to note that while e-cigarettes don’t contain tobacco, the battery-powered devices do deliver nicotine in aerosol form.

“The success rates of helping people to quit smoking using e-cigarettes are largely overhyped in my opinion”, he said. Though this is a less common method of kicking the habit and people still rely on nicotine gums and patches to reduce their dependency, e-cigarettes are slowly gaining in popularity.