What are the risks of vaping vs smoking? It’s often thought that vaping is as harmful as smoking. However, although not completely risk-free vaping is a lot less harmful than smoking. Cigarettes produce thousands of dangerous chemicals when burnt which causeup to 70 types of cancer. Most o...
Secondhand Smoke vs. Secondhand Vape Because vaping has a better odor than traditional cigarettes, I’ve noticed the people feel much more comfortable about smoking them indoors or in front of children. It’s hard to think of flavors like waffles and ice cream bring as toxic as smoke, but i...
Smoking prevalence evolves based on initiation and cessation rates. These rates are set as a linear function of US rates and scaled for the initial modeling year’s country-specific/US smoking prevalence ratio. For Germany-SAVM, we applied the ratio of German to US smoking prevalence for ages ...
Vaping was 2–3 times more prevalent than smoking, with 10% of students vaping regularly (monthly or more often), and 6% weekly or more often, compared with 4% and 2%, respectively, for tobacco smoking. Nicotine‐containing e‐cigarettes were sometimes or always used by 80% of regular and...
SmokingBackground This study aimed to discover which young adults vape, the reasons given for vaping, and which reasons for vaping are associated with continued vaping/smoking. Methods In a UK cohort of 3,994 young adults, we explored the association of retrospectively-recalled reasons for vaping...
Additionally, logistic regressions were carried out to predict smoking initi- ation among exclusive vapers (starting to smoke vs. remaining smoking abstinent during the lockdown) and to predict a rise in smoking behavior among all partici- pants (smoking more vs. smoking the same/less during ...
From 2015 to 2018, for all students and among past-year cannabis users specifically, the prevalence of smoking cannabis was 2–3 times higher than the prevalence of vaping or use of edibles [24, 25]. This comparison across substances (nicotine vs. cannabis) and modes of consumption (smoking...
Past efforts to deterministically model smoking-type behaviours use an SIR-type disease model framework with an analogy to smoking[23]. Extensions of this model account for possible social mechanisms involved in the process of relapse, a state of temporary quitting, the effects of temporary quitters...
Finally, the perception of vaping as a safer alternative to traditional smoking, driven by harm reduction messages, lowers barriers to experimentation and regular use [18]. All these factors collectively create an environment where vaping is increasingly normalized, especially among younger people. The...
A random forest model is developed to predict smoking relapse, focusing on racial differences and vaping characteristics.Data are drawn from the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) study adult interview files. Former combustible cigarette smokers at baseline (Wave 5) were followed up ...