WASHINGTON D.C. (USA): In a recent study, a group of scientists have found nonsmoking adolescents who use e-cigarettes, smokeless tobacco or tobacco water pipes are more likely to start smoking conventional cigarettes within a year.
A new research by UC San Francisco, analysed data from a nationally-representative sample of more than 10,000 adolescents, ages 12 to 17, which makes it the largest study to date to estimate the impact between alternative tobacco use and the subsequent start of conventional cigarette smoking in youth.
The team discovered that any form of tobacco, including e-cigarettes, was associated with future smoking, especially when adolescents used more than one product.
It means that novel tobacco products have the potential to undermine public health gains in combatting smoking.
Study's senior author Benjamin W. Chaffee, an assistant professor at the UCSF School of Dentistry, said, "We found that teens who experimented with tobacco in any form were at greater risk of future s ..