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As consumers pay more attention to health and the tobacco control policies of various countries, more and more smokers choose to switch to e-cigarettes, which has also led to the continuous expansion of the global e-cigarette market.

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Frost and Sullivan statistics show that the global e-cigarette market was US$12.4 billion in 2014. By 2019, this figure was US$36.7 billion, with a compound average annual growth rate of 24.2%.

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The popularity of e-cigarettes has attracted a lot of attention. For a long time, as more and more users switch to e-cigarettes, people have always thought that e-cigarettes will attract many non-smokers to smoke, making people worry that e-cigarettes will expand the smoking group, thus causing adverse effects. But this is not the case.

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#p#Pagination Title #e#Some time ago, the latest paper published by China Center for Disease Control and Prevention gave answers to people's concerns about e-cigarettes, supported by professional data.

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The study is titled "E-cigarette Use among Adults in China: Results of Repeated Cross-sectional Surveys in the Biennial 2015-16 and 2018-19" and aims to determine trends and related factors in e-cigarette use in China.

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Survey and research groups, Tuyuanzhong Disease Control Papers?

The survey included nearly 400,000 adults. The survey was conducted at 298 national disease surveillance sites in 31 provinces across the country. It used a multi-stage, stratified, and cluster random sampling design. This is also the first time that it has been reported at the national level. Current status and changing trends of e-cigarette use in China. It can be seen that the sample size is huge and nationally representative.

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Research results show that from 2015 to 2019, the usage rate of e-cigarettes among adults in China increased from 1.3% to 1.6%, of which male users accounted for almost the vast majority, accounting for about 97%.

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Distribution of adults using e-cigarettes in China, Photo Source: Disease Control Paper

It can be seen that although e-cigarettes mainly feature technology and other characteristics, their main users are still men.

In addition, this study also found that in 2015-2016, smokers accounted for approximately 93% of e-cigarette users in China; in 2018-2019, smokers accounted for approximately 96.2%, that is, non-smokers accounted for less than 4%.# p#pagination title #e#

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By estimating the weighted prevalence of data from 2018 to 2019, there were approximately 16.9 million adult e-cigarette users in China that year, of which 16.2 million were originally smokers.

In other words, most users who use e-cigarettes are actually former smokers and are not very attractive to non-smokers. The author of the paper also emphasized that non-smokers rarely use e-cigarettes.

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It is worth noting that this study not only analyzed the basic proportional characteristics of e-cigarette users in China, but also conducted a detailed assessment of the usage patterns of China e-cigarette users in terms of gender, age, region, income and other dimensions.

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In the end, data from multiple research dimensions show that e-cigarettes are very popular among older smokers, and the main reason why they come into contact with and turn to e-cigarettes is mainly to reduce the hazards of smoking.# p#pagination title #e#

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"We call on the public health community to pay attention to the short-and long-term health impacts of e-cigarettes and formulate differentiated policies and public education strategies for different groups of people." The author of the paper "E-Cigarette Use among Adults in China" mentioned.

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