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> UK surveys show that young people are experimenting with e-cigarettes, but regular use is rare and confined almost entirely to those who already smoke. This
by lucasmullens 7y ago
> UK surveys show that young people are experimenting with e-cigarettes, but regular use is rare and confined almost entirely to those who already smoke.
This is entirely not true in the US though, right? Curious how that can be so different.
- ShamelessC 7y agoYeah that's incredibly interesting to me. If that's true, what the hell is the UK doing so right that America isn't? I doubt that statistic and would like to see the survey they referred to.
- Symbiote 7y agoPerhaps there's less appeal when parents and other old, boring people have e-cigarettes, with the approval of their doctor.
- OJFord 7y agoI don't know what it's like over there (either cigarettes or e-) but here I would say anecdotally that a lot more school-age 'young people' smoke cigarettes than just-after-school (i.e. university students & early career); so perhaps 'those [young people] who already smoke' is quite a different group here? It'd be interesting to see the underlying not-anecdotal data, for sure. To clarify - I mean that perhaps British young people that would ever experiment e-cigarettes are already experimenting with cigarettes, whereas American young people are less inclined to (I think the legal age is mostly higher, for a start?) and so the intersection with e-cigarette users has a smaller, and different, starting point.