A new study has suggested that a significant number of teens who try vaping have never actually smoked. The 39% of adolescents who said they had tried e-cigarettes compares with 32% who had tried smoking. Only 3% of teens say they vape to stop smokingAnd 68% of those who had tried e-cigarettes said that they had never tried smoking. Teenagers said the main reasons they tried e-cigarettes were curiosity (66%) and also because their friends were also vaping (29%). Meanwhile, researchers said that youngsters whose parents are smokers are 55% more likely to try e-cigarettes.

Source: The Herald September 04, 2022 23:41 UTC