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What these studies show is that kids who are likely to try smoking are also more likely to try vaping. That's it. That's the whole thing. It's correlation, and
by stan_rogers 8y ago
What these studies show is that kids who are likely to try smoking are also more likely to try vaping. That's it. That's the whole thing. It's correlation, and doesn't speak in any way to anything like a "gateway drug" phenomenon - and that has also been recognised in studies that bother to consider the possibility.
- 013a 8y agoOh, right, yeah. Because this line totally isn't directly from the paper's conclusion: > These results contribute to the growing body of evidence supporting vaping as a one-way bridge to cigarette smoking among youth.
- stan_rogers 8y agoI'll see that study and raise you the UVic cohort study that found the opposite[0], among others if you're willing to look. The "growing body of evidence" is all about correlations in interview studies. [0]http://www.uvic.ca/research/centres/carbc/assets/docs/report-clearing-the-air-review-exec-summary.pdf http://www.uvic.ca/research/centres/carbc/assets/docs/report...
- minikites 8y agoThat link just goes to their homepage.
- pochamago 8y agoThat line honestly just makes it sound like they already knew what their opinion was before doing the study