Teens who use e-cigarettes ‘more likely to start smoking’

Teenagers who use e-cigarettes are more likely to take up smoking a year later, it has emerged.

Research has found that those who never smoked were almost three times more likely to smoke cigarettes a year after using e-cigarettes, compared to those who never used them.

Just under a third (31%) of more than 2,300 students had used e-cigarettes when they were first questioned in 2013, the study published in the journal Tobacco Control found.