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>predictably and indeed, by stepping up from vaping. Do you have any citations for this? I don't know any vapers in the younger generation who switched to ciga
by Clubber 2y ago
>predictably and indeed, by stepping up from vaping.
Do you have any citations for this? I don't know any vapers in the younger generation who switched to cigarettes who hadn't already picked up the cigarette habit.
Looking further, I don't see any uptick in cigarette smoking rates.
https://www.lung.org/research/trends-in-lung-disease/tobacco-trends-brief/overall-smoking-trends#:~:text=Trends%20in%20Cigarette%20Smoking%20Rates,-Created%20with%20Highcharts&text=Long%20term%2C%20smoking%20rates%20have,1965%20to%2011.6%25%20in%202022 https://www.lung.org/research/trends-in-lung-disease/tobacco....
- Freak_NL 2y agoIt was reported this month in a national Dutch newspaper: https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/10/01/beginnen-met-een-sigaretje-daarna-elke-dag-een-nicokick-jongeren-blijven-sigaretten-en-vapes-roken-a4867791 https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/10/01/beginnen-met-een-sigare... I'm not sure if any specific scientific research points out this link, but it has been suspected for a while based on anecdotal evidence. The interviews in the newspaper article are examples of that (and not limited to this one news source). The stagnation of the downward trend has been documented though: https://www.vzinfo.nl/roken/jongeren#elektro-roken-scholieren https://www.vzinfo.nl/roken/jongeren#elektro-roken-scholiere...