Trying E-Cigarettes May Lead to Smoking, Study Suggests

U.S. News & World Report via HealthDay News - Quotes James Sargent, professor of pediatrics and community and family medicine, and senior author of a new study that reports young people who use e-cigarettes are much more likely to become smokers than those who don't. "The real concern is that if it does indeed move these adolescents in the direction of smoking cigarettes, it's going to turn around the two-decade-long decline in teen smoking that we've seen," says Sargent. "The government needs to get off the pot on this. They need to act." (Similar coverage in MSN, MedicalXpress, Drugs.com, KCUR, Futurity, ScienceCodex, WebMD, DoctorsLounge, Los Angeles Times, Daily Mail, and Medical News Today.)