Published in the online edition of Pediatrics, the research reveals that young people age 12 to 24 who used e-cigarettes were three times as likely to become daily cigarette smokers in the future. The researchers add that the age of the first experimentation and the number of tobacco products tested also increased addiction risk. Among participants who said they used a tobacco product of any kind, daily use increased with age through age 28.
More precisely, nearly half of participants reported using at least one tobacco product in their lifetime during the first year of the study. This rose to 62% in the fourth year of the study, and among those, 73% had tried cigarettes, 72% had tried e-cigarettes, over 50% had tried hookahs and cigarillos, and just over 10% had tried traditional cigars or pipes.
By the fourth year of the study, 12% of participants reported using tobacco products daily, 50% of whom became daily users after the first year. Nearly three quarters of these daily users smoked cigarettes, and 63% used cigarettes exclusively. Plus, among the 17% of daily users who reported vaping every day, almost half were also non-daily cigarette smokers.
“Trying e-cigarettes and multiple other tobacco products before the age of 18 is also strongly associated with becoming daily cigarette smoking. We know that e-cigarette use among high school seniors, most under the age of 18, increased from 38% in 2016 to 45% in 2019,” said senior author, professor Karen Messer.
These results suggest that recent rapid growth in adolescent e-cigarette use will lead to increased daily cigarette smoking among young adults in the United States, reversing decades of decline in cigarette smoking,” she concluded.
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