Jamie Hartmann-Boyce, 2025 PEP Fellow, was part of a research team that found “very low-certainty evidence” to support the belief that nicotine vaping is a gateway to cigarette smoking for young people

The research team found “very low-certainty evidence” to support the belief that nicotine vaping is a gateway to cigarette smoking for young people. And because smoking rates among young people are down, Hartmann-Boyce says it’s also possible to interpret the findings that vaping can reduce the rates of smoking. Read more here and here

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