Survey Finds French Teens Are Unlikely to Switch From Vaping to Cigarettes
A large French survey found no evidence that vaping leads teenagers to regular smoking, suggesting French teens are unlikely to move from vaping to cigarettes.
Daily smoking has long been common among French teenagers. This study, titled “Does experimentation with e-cigarettes increase the transition to daily smoking among young French people?”, examined whether trying e-cigarettes, which is also very common, increases the likelihood of smoking.
The study found no evidence that vaping leads to smoking.
Using retrospective data from nearly 40,000 participants in a nationally representative French survey conducted in 2017, researchers analyzed the link between vaping and smoking. The number of participants who had ever smoked was 21,401, and within this group, teenagers who reported ever using e-cigarettes were less likely than those who had never used them to transition to daily smoking by age 17.
Researchers found that this pattern remained the same whether e-cigarettes were tried before or after smoking. They concluded that, in this regard, the study showed no evidence that vaping leads to smoking.
“Our results found no evidence of an increased risk of transitioning to daily smoking by age 17 among smokers who had also tried e-cigarettes. Further research should investigate the long-term effects on future smoking behavior by using causal inference methods.”
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