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The term “gateway” refers to an epidemiological phenomenon, where someone who use one product moves on to use another. If a non-smoker vapes, are they likely to take up smoking later on? At the moment there is no evidence to suggest this is the case.

When it comes to e-cigarettes, the gateway theory would suggest that young non-smokers who try vaping would move on to smoking tobacco. This fear is closely tied to people’s perception of nicotine and its addictive powers, which some scientists consider exaggerated.

This concern is justified primarily by the need to protect young people as part of anti-tobacco campaigns because we know that the earlier people start smoking, the harder it is to quit.

For now, there is no statistical data to show that using e-cigarettes leads to tobacco use.

Gateway effect: Still no conclusion from vaping to smoking

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With such a title "Is vaping a gateway to smoking: a review of the longitudinal studies", one can at least expect to finally get...

Benefits of swapping tobacco for vapor, proven once again

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This research was conducted by top tobacco control experts from the US, Canada and Australia, with the  study’s lead author Dr David Levy, a popular...

An appeal to base vaping policies on health prevention

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“IDHDP is a global network of medical doctors that supports drug policies based on the health of individuals and society.” The organization encourages medical...

Beware, the Californian garden does not hide the US forest!

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Two weeks ago, an article was published by the journal Pediatrics that exploited the data of a large longitudinal sample of Southern California youth who...

USA: Another attempt fails to demonstrate a gateway from vaping to...

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A new study published today in Pediatrics by Rob McConnell and his co-authors fails to convince tobacco experts and to establish causation between vaping and...

Scottish Tobacco Control pushes Ecigs plain packaging

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The Union’s Department of Tobacco Control in Edinburgh (UK), a global leader in the fight against tobacco use, seized up the World No Tobacco...

PATH Study: A survey of Ecig use in the US

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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and National Institute of Health's Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study is a large, national, representative...

The Ecig contributed to the decline in tobacco sales in 2015...

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In a plain page article, the Pr Gerard Dubois, former President of the French National Committee against Smoking, and Honorary President of the Alliance against...