Tobacco to be banned on Michigan State University campus

And those who smoked regular cigarettes were 12 times more likely to use the electrical gadgets.

E-cigarette use was found to be more common among male respondents and those who reported smoking cigarettes and/or other tobacco products.

Scientists from SickKids Hospital, Toronto, wanted to understand why teenagers were using e-cigarettes more and studied almost 2,400 children aged between 14 and 15.

“While e-cigarettes are frequently used as devices for smoking cessation in adults, we found most students in our survey (including 47.8% of those who recently smoked cigarettes) were motivated by the “cool/fun/something new” features of e-cigarettes”, say the study’s authors, whose work appears in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

Professor Kevin Fenton, National Director of health and wellbeing at PHE, said: “The evidence is clear that vaping is much less harmful than smoking and that e-cigarettes are helping many smokers to quit”.

Although Levy supports prudent FDA regulation of e-cigarettes, he is concerned that regulating e-cigarettes in the same manner as cigarettes will pose a burden to smaller companies who do not have the resources necessary to gain marketing approval for their products.

They acknowledge that, owing to the study’s cross-sectional design, the findings represet association and can not prove causation, and that since the study was limited to one region in Canada the findings are not necessarily generalisable.

University officials say they’re enacting the ban as a matter of public health.

Levy also suggests that, despite their findings of an overall public health benefit from e-cigarettes, use of these products needs to be continuously monitored in young people, since use patterns are likely to change as the product and awareness about the product changes.

The devices are likely to reduce smoking-related deaths in the United States by more than a fifth since their introduction, according to a mathematical model.

In health news, it looks like e-cigs may actually reduce the number of tobacco deaths.

While the numbers of teenagers now vaping has increased, the numbers smoking deadly tobacco has fallen.

“The most common reason that three-quarters of them used it was to be cool, or it was fun and something new”, Khoury said about his research.