THE GUARDIAN: Review warns e-cigarettes could act as gateway to smoking and are also linked to higher asthma and other health risks
Young people who vape are three times as likely to start smoking, develop asthma and have poor mental health as those who do not, according to a study that lays bare the health impacts of e-cigarettes.
Vaping among young people is consistently linked to later smoking, according to the largest umbrella review of all the evidence on youth vaping, which warns that e-cigarettes could act as a gateway.
The researchers found associations with other harmful consequences including asthma, cough, injuries and mental ill health, as well as possible risks of respiratory disease, headaches, poor oral health and substance use. » | Rachel Hall | Tuesday, August 19, 2025
Starmer’s generational smoking ban is a pipe dream. He’s got no more chance of making a success of it than he has of stopping burglaries or supermarket theft. We do not have enough police to enforce such a smoking ban.
My regular visitors will be aware of the fact that I have always stated that encouraging vaping to replace smoking regular cigarettes will only lead to more smokers of regular cigarettes down the line. Now, it seems, researchers have caught up. It really was only common sense from the very start.
From the start, it would have been better if governments had not encouraged vaping to replace smoking. Had they left things alone, the smoking rate had been coming down quite drastically anyway. That trend has been put into reverse now. Meddlesome is as meddlesome does! — © Mark Alexander
