E-cigarettes are not an introduction to tobacco use

PARIS (Reuters) – Electronic cigarettes are not an entry point for teen smoking, according to a study released Tuesday, confirming the results of previous research on the subject, although few Information is available on the health consequences of these products.
A large study in Britain showed that teenagers' passion for e-cigarettes did not prevent the continued decline in smoking among this age group.
Between 1998 and 2015, the proportion of Britons aged 13 to 15 who smoked at least once went from 60% to 19% and the proportion of permanent smokers to 19% to 5%.
Negative attitudes towards smoking are on the rise, with only 27% of adolescents judged to be smoke-free in 2015, up from 70% in 1998.
Researchers have also shown that this decline in consumption and negative opinions on smoking have not slowed down in the last phase (2011-2015), in light of the boom of electronic cigarettes, which proves that this new wave did not increase the proportion of smokers.
The study, published in the Proceedings of the British Medical Journal (BMG), appears similar to other studies conducted in recent years and concludes that electronic cigarettes do not lead to smoking, as some people do. fear.
However, some research, particularly in the United States, has come to conflicting conclusions. Notably a study published in Gamma magazine in 2015 among 2,530 students in California, where teens who use electronic cigarettes are more likely than others to start smoking. Even though electronic cigarette smokers do not smoke tobacco, this practice is not without risk. The consequences of e-cigarettes are still very vague due to the short time since the appearance of these products at the end of the last decade.
Researchers have needed decades to prove the dangers of smoking, which is known to kill seven million people a year earlier in the world.
The use of an electronic cigarette increases the risk of heart attack by 34%, the risk of coronary artery disease by 25% and the risk of depression by 55%, according to a study of 100,000 adults in the United States. United.