Vaping May Open the Door to Cannabis Use in Teens

Adolescents who used e-cigarettes were significantly more likely to become new smokers of cannabis shortly thereafter, a cohort study found.

Cannabis-naive adolescents reporting ever vaping at baseline were more than twice as likely to report also using cannabis when surveyed a year later (adjusted RR 2.57 vs nonusers of e-cigarettes, 95% CI 2.04-3.09), reported Ruoyan Sun, PhD, a health behavior researcher at University of Alabama at Birmingham, and colleagues.

Read the full article in MedPage Today here: https://www.medpagetoday.com/primarycare/smoking/99871

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