E-cigarettes not encouraging new smokers

Electronic cigarettes are not encouraging young people to smoke, research by a British health charity has shown.

Ash (Action on Smoking and Health) found no evidence that young people were being recruited to smoking because of e-cigarettes, despite a rise in the number of 11- to 18-year-olds who claim to have tried the vaporiser.

In 2013, 4% of 11- to 18-year-olds said they had tried e-cigarettes “once or twice”, but, in 2015, the figure had risen to 10%.