And these are people who smoked more than a pack a day for years. They cough they get dizzy they feel sick. Yet the CDC reports that during the same period that e-cigarette use among high school students increased from 1.5% to 2.8%, cigarette smoking fell from 15.8% to 14.0%, and overall tobacco use (in which e-cigarettes are included) fell from 24.3% to 23.3%. That doesn’t seem to support the idea that e-cigarettes are creating hordes of new smokers.įurthermore, adult vapers who start using second-generation or better products often find that they can no longer physically tolerate smoking. Even though the ASH study has not yet followed these never-smoking vapers to see whether they do, in fact, take up smoking, I would not be putting my money on e-cigs as the top of my marketing funnel if I were trying to sell traditional tobacco cigarettes to non-smokers.Īrguments for a gateway effect seem to be predicated on the fact that most teens who use e-cigarettes also smoke, and the number of teens who use e-cigarettes is growing. 99% of aware, never-smoking 16-18 year olds have never tried an e-cigarette.”īefore any substance or product can be a gateway to anything, it has to have a high level of popularity among people who have never used the substance(s) that it’s supposed to be a gateway to. The same study found that “The worry about children becoming gateway users also seems unfounded. 1% of adults used e-cigarettes regularly but had never smoked. The ASH Survey conducted by YouGov found that only. So far, however, there is not much evidence of such a gateway effect for e-cigarettes. This, along with the “it looks like smoking” argument, is used to justify harsh restrictions on e-cigarettes even in the absence of evidence that they are harmful to your health.
We’ve been hearing a lot about the possible gateway effect that e-cigarette use may have on susceptible teenagers: if they start vaping, it will lead to smoking later on.
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