Third of UK teenagers who vape will go on to start smoking, research shows | Young people
The research will begin to drink steamer tobacco, that is, the possibility of smoking as well as in the 1970s.
A long -term study found that the likelihood of starting smoking among people aged 17 in 2018 was about 1.5% without the vape compared to 33%.
The findings show that e-cigarettes are increasingly acted on nicotine cigarettes for children as “passage ve and weaken young smoking rates in the last 50 years.
The study was the last year in which comparable data were present in 2018. Considering that vaping and cigarette rates among young people have increased in the last seven years, it may have increased since then.
Although academics do not establish a causal connection, considering the increasing popularity of the ferry, he wrote that his findings were “especially related ,,“ Although the e-cigarettes had some first guarantees [adolescents]”.
“In reducing the risk of smoking, the success of previous tobacco control efforts and wide shifts in interdered risk factors can be alleviated when adolescents use e-cigarettes,” he wrote.
Figures compiled by action on cigarette and health This year, it shows that 20% of children aged 11 to 17 years in Great Britain tried Vaping, an estimated 1.1 million children. This was at the same level as the number of children using vape in the previous three times in the previous three years. Smoking among young people increased from 14% to 21% in 2023.
Research and directed by the University of Michigan published In the Tobacco Journal, the national representation of the British youth born in 1958, 1970 and 2001 was drawn on the interstate data from three national birth cohortes.
The probability of smoking for an average teenager (16 or 17 years old) was calculated as 30% for born in 1958, 22% for those born in 1970 and 9.5% for those born in 2001.
The possibility of smoking between 16- and 17 years old was estimated based on a common childhood risk factors containing young vaping for the youngest cohort. Some societies, including race and ethnic origin, are not calculated due to insufficient sample dimensions in previous cohortes.
Risk factors whether they drink alcohol until the age of 16 or 17; How busy they are with education at school; Weak impulse control reported by the main caregiver at the age of 10 or 11; and parent profession, education and smoking behavior – during pregnancy. The researchers found that these risks remained widely similar between the three cohort.
The analysis showed a steep decline in the prevalence of smoking among young people, from 33% in 1974 to 25% in 1986 and to 12% in 2018.
Researchers argued that the decline in the prevalence of young smoking was the result of tobacco control laws, better understanding of the health effects of smoking and distancing from socially acceptable perception of smoking.
The study has shown that other behaviors that contribute to the risk of smoking have changed over time.
For example, the percentage of young people who started to drink until the age of 16 or 17 fell from 94% to the smallest for the oldest cohort.
The average age in which mothers left education rose from 15.5 to the smallest in the oldest cohort.
Steve Turner, President of Royal Pediatrics and Child Health College, said the research was “incredibly related”.
“The biggest concern of children and young people about Vaping is that this age group is particularly sensitive to developing addiction for Nicotine in the vapors. We know that nicotine addiction is harmful,” he said.
“We have all worked hard to stop young people from smoking, and the vaping may have taken back tasks for decades.
“Smoking continues to be the leading cause of preventive illness and death in the UK.
