BMJ: Smoking rate decline mirrors rise in vaping

[LoveVanilla]

Pace of US smoking rate decline mirrors rapid rise in popularity of vaping

To try and explore these trends in more depth and settle the question of whether vaping might act as a gateway to smoking, the researchers carried out a time trend analysis, using publicly available data up to and including 2017.

The pace of the fall in smoking prevalence among teens and young adults in the US has mirrored the rapid rise in popularity of e-cigarettes, suggesting that the two may be linked, finds research published online in the journal tobacco Control.

While trying e-cigarettes may prompt some young people to take up smoking at the individual level, there is little evidence that this is the case at the population level, conclude the researchers. And these findings are consistent over several years, they emphasise.

They conclude: “If our primary concern is population level trends in youth and young adult smoking, which we believe is appropriate, then vaping has not shown to be a serious cause for concern….and may be playing a contributing role to the recent steep declines in youth and young adult smoking.”

This is an important read for those interested

 

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The connection seems obvious to me.

 

[stols001]

That does seem rather obvious but it's nice to see it in print.

I have long said vaping's fatal flaw is that it WORKS,.I would have spent so much more on tobacco by now. Not to mention oxygen tanks.

Anna