Data from Australian Secondary School Students Alcohol and Drug Survey predates ‘huge’ increase in vaping
E-cigarette use is the single strongest risk factor for adolescents taking up tobacco smoking, out-ranking social norms, poor mental health and misperceptions about smoking harms, research published on Wednesday has found.
The findings come from 4,266 Victorian students aged 12 to 17 who anonymously took part in the 2017 Australian Secondary School Students Alcohol and Drug Survey , with researchers then focusing on 3,410 students who reported never having smoked even part of a cigarette. The students were asked questions about their use of substances, mental health, social groups, school absenteeism and e-cigarette use. They were also asked how likely they believed they were to be smoking cigarettes in the next year.
More than one in 10 of the students who said they had never smoked were nonetheless susceptible to tobacco smoking, the study, led by Cancer Council Victoria and the University of Melbourne, found., it found the strongest factor for susceptibility to future smoking was having ever smoked e-cigarettes.
Prof Sarah Durkin, a co-author of the study and principal research fellow at the Centre for Behavioural Research at Cancer Council Victoria, said the findings were consistent with
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