Teens Try E-cigarettes, But Few Become Regular Users
Sunday, April 19, 2015 - 22:20
in Psychology & Sociology
There is concern about e-cigarettes that they may cause addiction rather than cure it - California advocates are spending millions claiming Big Tobacco is marketing them to children - but like nicotine patches and chewing gum, teens may try them but unless they already smoke, they don't embrace them. Writing in BMJ Open, the researchers base their findings on the results of two nationally representative surveys of primary and secondary schoolchildren (CHETS Wales 2 and the Welsh Health Behaviour in School aged Children) from more than 150 schools in Wales carried out in 2013 and 2014. In all, 1601 children aged 10-11 and 9055 11-16 year olds were quizzed about their use of e-cigarettes. read more