It verifies the notion that increased availability of e-cigarettes to teenagers only stimulates, not prevents, cigarette smoking, he said.
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But the CDC also found that 24 percent of high schoolers smoked “electronic vapor products” including e-cigs in the past 30 days.
Researchers from the University of Southern California followed two groups of high school juniors and seniors (about 300 in total) who had never smoked cigarettes before.
New laws around the sale, promotion and use of e-cigarettes will come into effect on September 1, 2016.
A year later, a follow-up showed that about 40 percent of those who tried the e-cigarette have also tried to smoke regular cigarettes.
Dr. Michael Siegel, a professor at the Boston University School of Public Health and a proponent of e-cigarettes as a way to wean smokers off conventional cigarettes, told Reuters the study did not prove e-cigarette use had prompted the teens to take up regular cigarettes. Siegel, who was not involved in the study, said the first survey did not determine how many times the teens had vaped, asking only if they had used e-cigarettes at least once.
“These kids are expressing a pretty firm commitment not to smoke”, at the beginning, Barrington-Trimis tells ABC News.
Rhiannon Griffith-Bowman smokes an E-Cigarette at Digital Ciggz on January 28, 2015 in San Rafael, California. “But more research is needed; we don’t really have enough data to sort it out”.
Barrington-Trimis is of the opinion that the high risk among teens who say they’re not going to smoke “suggests this is not just occurring among kids who meant to smoke anyway”. He pointed out that the first survey did not examine how many times the teens used a vaping device.
While Hajek acknowledges that e-cigarette smoking does not prevent someone from trying tobacco cigarettes, the mere experimentation with a vaping product does not necessarily lead to a smoking habit.
“The bottom line is that as more teens have experimented with vapor products, youth smoking has experienced massive and unprecedented declines that no one predicted just five years ago”, Conley said.
Cynthia Cabrera, executive director for the Smoke-Free Alternatives Trade Association, disputed the study’s findings, pointing out that teen smoking has continued to decrease.
These amendments also ban the use of tobacco and e-cigarettes on health authority properties; however, health authorities can establish designated smoking and vaping areas at their discretion.
E-cigarette companies spent $115 million on advertising in 2014, compared to $6.4 million in 2011, the CDC’s National Youth Tobacco Survey found.
New data from the U.S. REUTERS/Chris Wattie A high school student looks at a mock up of plain cigarette packaging before the start of a news conference in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, May 31, 2016.
Over the last decade there has been great progress in helping teens stay away from tobacco cigarettes but the new vaping trend, e-cigs, hookahs, and chew-able tobacco is unfortunately changing the game and changing risk.
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Teens who vape soon become tobacco smokers, according to new study. “Using e-cigarettes in and of themselves is not a safe behavior”.
