Teens Who Never Would’ve Smoked Are Vaping

A new study reveals that e-cigarettes are harmful to the heart.

E-cigarettes are electronic devices that vaporize a fluid, which is then inhaled.

In 2011, about 1.5 per cent of high schoolers had vaped in the past 30 days, according to the US National Youth Tobacco Survey.

In 2014, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the number of middle and high school students smoking e-cigarettes had tripled from the previous year to 2 million students. The researchers note that although the smoking prevalence has declined among adolescents in California over the past 20 years, “the high prevalence of combined e-cigarette or cigarette use in 2014, compared with historical Southern California smoking prevalence, suggests that e-cigarettes are not merely substituting for cigarettes and indicates that e-cigarette use is occurring in adolescents who would not otherwise have used tobacco products”. Thirteen percent said they’d smoked during the month before the 2014 survey.

With the debut of vaping in the U.S. in 2007, there was hope that teens who smoked would replace old-school cigarettes with e-cigarettes, curbing tobacco use.

‘If teenagers who vape are using e-cigarettes instead of cigarettes, we would have expected to see the decline in smoking rates continue through 2014.

Current smoking rates were consistently higher among white adolescents than among Hispanic adolescents, although similar numbers admitted to having ever tried cigarettes or e-cigarettes. The data supports the idea that some teens who are vaping would not have smoked cigarettes if it weren’t for vaping.

That’s the percentage of US adults who reported smoking cigarettes in 2014 – almost a 20 percent decrease from 10 years ago.

Researchers collected the history of tobacco use in an individually administered questionnaire.

According to the study, vaping could also be just the first step in tobacco use.

The study, conducted by the University of Southern California found that teenagers who don’t otherwise smoke, are now vaping.

While it is illegal to smoke in an enclosed area under smoke-free legislation, e-cigarettes are not legally banned as they produce a vapour rather than smoke.

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“There were a couple of markers that did not go up with e-cigarettes as much as after cigarette smoking, but that does not reassure us about the long term impact of e-cigarettes on vascular health”. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced plans to regulate all tobacco products – including e-cigarettes, cigars and hookah tobacco – in May.