Recent research shows that young adults aged between 22 to 23 years are more likely to start smoking, moreover, these smokers are more likely to become daily smokers in their adulthoods. Hence the research by the JAMA network suggests smoking prevention efforts should be focused on targeting adolescents. Moreover, by 2019 young smokers increase by 20% from the previous years. Hence, these lead to questions, with all the known risks of smoking cigarettes why doesn’t the number of new young adult smokers decrease? Moreover, are there new reasons for smoking or the same reasons as before? Therefore, the consideration of e-cigarettes comes to question. This new e-cigarette comes with different flavors that are more likable to younger adults. On top of that, the popularity of vaping has also increased in recent years. With that new research done by the 2021 Online edition of Pediatrics shows that in 2014 people aged 12 to 14 who used e-cigarettes were three times as likely to become daily cigarette smokers in the future. Hence, the data only shows though the start products changed from cigarettes to e-cigarettes, the end product has stayed the same. Where users become dependent on nicotine.
This video interviews young adults who smoke to understand why they smoke? considering the risk, and what their stand is on vaping and e-cigarettes. Understanding, personal reasons for smoking could lead to a better understanding of how to stop teenagers from becoming smokers.
Here are some articles that did a research on this topic and related field
health.ucsd.edu/news/releases/Pages/2021-01-10-youth-using-e-cigarettes-three-times-likely-to-become-daily-cigarette-smokers.aspx
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7539122/
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