“While there is no question that a puff on an e-cigarette is less unsafe than a puff on a conventional cigarette, the most risky thing about e-cigarettes is that they keep people smoking conventional cigarettes”.
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Teens with greater levels of family support and education were less likely to make the transition from non- user of either e-cigarettes or tobacco to use of both by 2014.
The surveys also revealed that 10 percent of the students who had not used e-cigarettes by 2013 went on to try them by 2014.
The researchers, however, found that only those who admitted to the highest frequency of vaping in the first year were likely to become regular smokers, suggesting that many of those who tried smoking in the study were merely experimenting. “A cross-sectional study of 1,836 tobacco smokers finds a significant association with e-cig use and “unsuccessful quitter” status, but none with ‘quitter” status.
According to reports, more than 2.6 million people use e-cigarettes in the United Kingdom itself and India is not far behind. It didn’t matter how much or how often they used e-cigarettes – all vapers were more susceptible to traditional smoking than their nonvaping counterparts, the study authors found.
According to the study, just under 31% of the teens sampled had used an e-cigarette at least once in 2013, while about 15% had smoked at least one cigarette. The results showed that among students who had never smoked in 2013, the risk of at least trying a cigarette by 2014 was 5 percent for those who hadn’t vaped and 14 percent for those who had.
A study shows that the teenagers who smoke e-cigarettes are highly likely to smoke tobacco in the future.
They either never used either products, used them a few times a year or daily.
Hailing primarily from the University of Hawaii in Honolulu, the authors chose to take a longer look at the potential relationship between e-cigs and their tobacco counterparts than earlier research. “They were less likely to start using anything”, Wills said.
The findings were published online January 25 in the journal Tobacco Control.
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.
Globally, the tobacco industry makes a profit of more than £4,000 for every death caused by tobacco.
‘At a time when health budgets are stretched, this is a simple solution to a lethal problem.
But those who regularly smoked was only associated with higher levels of e-cigarette use in 2013.
“Teenage use of electronic cigarettes is an emerging public health issue”.
Public health minister Maureen Watt said: “This government is not opposed to e-cigarettes but we think it is right to protect children from nicotine addiction, and to limit the prevalence of smoking behaviours”. About 98 percent of the students who were quizzed in 2013 had heard of e-cigarettes and considered them to be a healthier alternative to regular smoking.
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She said: “Any assumptions that one leads to the other are not supported, as is the case with previous studies”.
