Young E-cigarette Users Often Switch to Tobacco Smoking, Study Finds (Audio)

VPR - Continued coverage on comments by Samir Soneji, assistant professor of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, on the study that found young people who use e-cigarettes are very likely to move on to smoking real tobacco products. Soneji speculates that e-cigarettes, which deliver nicotine slowly, tempt novices to try it in a user-friendly form. "So a 17-year old kid who has never used cigarettes before might use e-cigarettes and it might allow him to become more tolerant of the side effects of nicotine using e-cigarettes and then unfortunately if addiction happens he might switch to traditional cigarettes," says Soneji. (Audio for this story will be posted at approximately 11 a.m.)