Smoking

Teens using e-cigarettes more likely to smoke

Two new studies of e-cigarettes may bolster the United States (US) government’s efforts to stem what it calls a growing epidemic of youth vaping.Children and teens who had used e-cigarettes were four times more likely to have taken up cigarette smoking than those who didn’t vape, according to a study published Friday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

3 February 2019
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