New Study Refutes E-Cigarette Gateway Hypothesis

This study should help ease the concerns of those worried about e-cigarettes addicting youth nonsmokers and leading them along a gateway which ends with life-long smoking addiction. Only a very small percentage of nonsmokers were found to be vaping regularly, with only 0.7% vaping at a level that could potentially represent addiction. These findings provide no support for the theory that e-cigarettes are a gateway to smoking. Combined with the fact that youth smoking has dramatically fallen during a period when e-cigarette use among youth is skyrocketing, these findings refute the gateway hypothesis and show that the claims being made by many anti-smoking groups and agencies, including the CDC, are false.The rest of the story is that it is time for CDC director Dr. Thomas Frieden to retract his statement that: " Many teens who start with e-cigarettes may be condemned to struggling with a lifelong addiction to nicotine and conventional cigarettes. " It is high time that the CDCstop lying to the public about this critical issue.
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