Youth using e-cigarettes three times as likely to become daily cigarette smokers

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-01/uoc--yue010721.php

 

News Release 11-Jan-2021
Age at first use and number of tobacco products consumed also increases addiction risk
University of California - San Diego

 

An analysis of a large nationally representative longitudinal study by University of California San Diego Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science report that starting tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, before the age of 18 is a major risk factor for people becoming daily cigarette smokers.

Reporting in the January 11, 2021 online edition of Pediatrics, researchers found that in 2014 people age 12 to 24 who used e-cigarettes were three times as likely to become daily cigarette smokers in the future. Among those who reported using a tobacco product, daily use increased with age through age 28. Daily cigarette smoking nearly doubled between 18 to 21 year olds (12 percent) and 25 to 28 year olds (21 percent).


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