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E-cigarettes ARE a gateway to teenage tobacco smoking: Youngsters are twice as likely to go on to regular smoking after using the devices
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-5030093/E-cigarettes-gateway-teenage-tobacco-smoking.html
"They admitted they were not entirely sure that e-cigarettes had caused the tobacco take-up - stressing the ‘association is unclear’.
Researcher Dr David Hammond said: ‘E-cigarettes may help to re-normalise smoking.
But he admitted: ‘However, the association between e-cigarettes and smoking may simply reflect common factors rather than a causal effect: the same individual and social risk factors that increase e-cigarette use may also increase the likelihood of youth smoking.’
His team wrote: ‘The findings from our study provide support for both sides of the debate. It is highly plausible that ‘common factors’ account for a substantial proportion of increased cigarette-smoking initiation among e-cigarette users."
News sites figure you are so stupid you will either just read the headline or maybe read the first paragraph so they bury the truth in a place that you have to scroll to get to.
Year after year they use this tired ass gateway scare and year after year the teen smoking rate plummets.
If the gateway theory were correct then the teen smoking rate wouldn't have dropped from 18.1% in 2011 to 8% in 2016
"Smoking" is considered one cigarette in the last 30 days
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-5030093/E-cigarettes-gateway-teenage-tobacco-smoking.html
"They admitted they were not entirely sure that e-cigarettes had caused the tobacco take-up - stressing the ‘association is unclear’.
Researcher Dr David Hammond said: ‘E-cigarettes may help to re-normalise smoking.
But he admitted: ‘However, the association between e-cigarettes and smoking may simply reflect common factors rather than a causal effect: the same individual and social risk factors that increase e-cigarette use may also increase the likelihood of youth smoking.’
His team wrote: ‘The findings from our study provide support for both sides of the debate. It is highly plausible that ‘common factors’ account for a substantial proportion of increased cigarette-smoking initiation among e-cigarette users."
News sites figure you are so stupid you will either just read the headline or maybe read the first paragraph so they bury the truth in a place that you have to scroll to get to.
Year after year they use this tired ass gateway scare and year after year the teen smoking rate plummets.
If the gateway theory were correct then the teen smoking rate wouldn't have dropped from 18.1% in 2011 to 8% in 2016
"Smoking" is considered one cigarette in the last 30 days
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