E-Cigarettes May Be a Gateway to Marlboros

Esquire - Continued coverage on the recent study conducted by Dartmouth and the University of Pittsburgh, which found that young people who try e-cigarettes are much more likely to start smoking. The researchers evaluated 694 people between the ages of 16 and 26 who had never previously smoked cigarettes. Additionally, all participants—54 percent of whom were female, and 76 percent of whom were white—were determined to be "attitudinally nonsusceptible" to smoking because they responded "definitely no" when asked if they would try a cigarette offered by a friend or if they would smoke within the next year. (Similar coverage in Focus News, Sci-Tech Today, Times of India, and Medicine Net.)