S4M-15500: E-cigarettes can harm young

28 Jan 2016

That the Parliament notes the findings of a study published in the journal,Tobacco Control, by a group of academics, which found that young people who tried e-cigarettes who had not smoked before were almost three times more likely to take up traditional cigarettes; further notes that, of the youngsters who had not smoked e-cigarettes at the start of the study, one in 10 had used e-cigarettes by the end of the study, with 2% having experimented with traditional cigarettes; understands that the report findings suggest that the use of e-cigarettes by adolescents may not be without detrimental impact, and is very concerned that e-cigarettes may be a means by which young people are enticed into very harmful traditional smoking.