«This study shows that young people who
experiment with tobacco cigarettes also try e-cigarettes, and vice versa, consistent with a tendency for young people to try things, and to try things that are related to each other.
Among their concerns: e-cigs might lure former smokers back to conventional cigarettes, expose users and bystanders alike to unidentified dangers, or become a gateway for teens who might subsequently
experiment with tobacco products and other drugs.
Children are more likely to
experiment with tobacco if their self - esteem is low or if they're starved for affection and attention.
Not exact matches
Maloney and Cappella observed a trend that more daily smokers who viewed ads
with vaping smoked a
tobacco cigarette during the
experiment than daily smokers who viewed ads without vaping and daily smokers who did not view ads.
AMSTERDAM — Is
experimenting with e-cigarettes among young people associated
with a higher risk of smoking
tobacco, as an influential study published 2 years ago in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) found?
«Young people typically
experiment with nicotine from
tobacco in their teens, and that exposure possibly contributes to a greater vulnerability to alcohol abuse later in life.
Therefore the researchers used soybean plants for their
experiments; but thale cress,
tobacco and wild tomato were also connected pairwise or in clusters
with the parasite.
However, young people are now more likely to
experiment with e-cigarettes than they are
with tobacco cigarettes.
For example, a 2014 study found that 22 % of children aged 11 - 15 in England had
experimented with e-cigarettes, compared to 18 % for
tobacco cigarettes.
Is
experimenting with e-cigarettes among young people associated
with a higher risk of smoking
tobacco?
The neurodevelopmental and social backdrop of early adolescence may promote risk - taking behavior, 25 and neural plasticity may sensitize the adolescent brain to the effects of nicotine.31 Hence, adolescent never smokers exposed to nicotine - rich e-cigarette aerosols and the pleasant sensations associated
with vaping could be more liable to
experiment with other nicotine - containing products, including combustible
tobacco.
And new data show that teens who had no intention to smoke
tobacco cigarettes often do after first
experimenting with e-cigarettes.
Yet another U.S. study shows teens who live
with their married parents are less likely to
experiment to drugs alcohol or
tobacco than other teens — even after controlling for age, race, gender, and family income.