In this article, we provide a critical analysis of the use of the gateway theory to justify Australian policy. We argue first that the evidence that vaping serves as a gateway to smoking is unconvincing. Smoking more often precedes vaping than vice versa, regular vaping by never-smokers is ...
Hyping the harms of e-cigarettes or banning the types of flavours that may broaden their appeal could seriously undermine their potential as tools to help people stop smoking. “As long as smokers believe that vaping is as dangerous or more dangerous than smoking, many of them are ...
Not All E-Juice has Nicotine A lot of people think that vaping is a gateway to cigarette smoking due to the high content of nicotine. But, many vape juices do not contain nicotine at all. You can choose to add nicotine into your vaping experience especially if you are trying to quit s...
The most common anti-vaping tactic lately is confusing and conflating language to mislead people by lumpingvapesin with smoking by characterizing thedevicesas tobacco products. Classifyingvapesas tobacco products, regardless of actual tobacco content, is the basis for regulating vaping with laws designed...
Is vaping a gateway to teenage smoking? Many e-cigarette skeptics worry that vaping might lead naive adolescent users to smoking cigarettes, undoing decades of progress in reducing smoking uptake among teens. But that hasn't happened—at least not at a population level. In fact, since the adve...
Vaping can encourage the youth to start smoking Some claim that vaping is a gateway to cigarette smoking. However, there is no evidence to support such claims. Those who like vaping are typically turned off by the taste and smell of cigarette smoke. E-cigarettes can explode We’ve seen ne...
is responsible for nearly 480,000 deaths per year in the US alone. While the benefits of quitting cigarettes are monumental, finding alternatives to smoking that will help people get off cigarettes for good is not so easy. Here are a few reasons whyvapingis the best alternative to smoking. ...
Furthermore, vaping is often a gateway to the nicotine variety and to smoking (the World Health Organisation estimates that for young people it more than doubles the likelihood of smoking in the future)29. In fact, 99% of the e-cigarettes sold in the USA contained nicotine5 and according ...
“E-cigs are a gateway to smoking for teenagers” This is the reason for the current “flavor ban” initiative proposed by anti-vaping groups. They say sweet flavors appeal to kids, well it appeals to adults as well. Sweet flavors aren’t going to entice kids or teens to start vaping ...
Despite these encouraging figures, the survey revealed that 27% of the participants are still caught in the web of misinformation, mistakenly perceiving vaping to be as unhealthy, if not more so, than traditional smoking. This is contrary to a plethora of scientific evidence advocating the lesser...