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 ...
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...
If you have never heard the term before or maybe don’t quite understand what all “vaping” entails, here is a short description. Vaping is the act of inhaling vapor through an electronic device and exhaling in a similar fashion to smoking a traditional cigarette. The vaping device used may...
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 ...
This study further proves that e-cigarettes are an effective smoking cessation tool. Deborah Arnott, the CEO of ASH stated that the reason why there are still a large number of people who are yet to try vaping, is the misconception that vaping is equally harmful as smoking or even more ...
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Dr Livingstone says e-cigarettes mimic the action of smoking, and they can be just as addictive. “There is some evidence that young people who vape can become nicotine dependent,” he says. He also says there is some evidence e-cigarettes can act as a gateway to smoking cigarettes. ...
While vaping may be a good short-term gateway to stop smoking in adults, it is introducing teens’ to nicotine at a younger age. Some e-cigarettes are marketed as “nicotine-free” but this is not monitored at all. Sometimes these “nicotine-free” e-cigarettes have an even higher level...
“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 ...
Youth vaping is a gateway to smoking US high school smoking has dropped 90% over the past 10 years (2012-2021). Further, among all US adults, the age group with the steepest rate of smoking decline over the past decade is young adults, followed by the next age cohort (25-34 years ol...