Electronic cigarette: gateway to tobacco?

Electronic cigarette, smoking gateway to route ? In some cases, yes , says a study published this January 7th in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. A team from the University of Minnesota surveyed more than 1,300 teens about their opinion about e-cigarettes and consumption of traditional cigarettes or not.
A lack of knowledge
The e-cigarette, often described as a less harmful alternative to traditional cigarettes, increasingly successful . But it is also the subject of controversy. He is sometimes accused of being a first step towards smoking. While we do not yet know precisely its effects on health or addictiveness , the researchers wanted to determine its impact among young people. Youth participants gave their opinion on the e-cigarette and its use in smoking cessation. A year later, a follow-up survey asked if they had experienced the product.wholesale electronic cigarettes

 Smokers and smokers repented are more likely to test the electronic cigarette, with respective rates of 21.6% and 11.9%. But what is most interesting about this study is 3 % of non- smokers who smoked these products and traditional cigarettes. A small but very real proportion . "This is problematic, because young adults are still developing their behavior in relation to tobacco, " Dr. Kelvin Choi analysis , lead author of the study, " and the e-cigarette may initiate smoking ." He therefore suggested to specify in commercials, we still lack knowledge about the electronic cigarette and its potential dangers.

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However, do not panic , puts Professor Bertrand Dautzenberg , president of the French Office for Smoking Prevention ( OFT). Those who test the electronic cigarette is not limited to experience this , and it does not mean in any case they adopt permanently. It also emphasizes that extreme minority adherents non -smoking e-cigarette smokers become traditional

If he does not recommend enabling the electronic cigarette adolescents , Professor Dautzenberg is not conducive to usage restrictions for adults. " More Product initiation become a youth , the more we will be forced to restrict access to the product. This will hinder vapoteurs - old smokers who , themselves, need access loosely product . "cheap electronic cigarettes

 We must therefore expect further to determine the effects of electronic cigarette on the long - term studies. It is only then that we can say with certainty whether the product helps to stop or if he pushes rather the consumption of traditional cigarettes.