Shannon D'Arcy (20 years old) from Palmerstown, Dublin started smoking when he was 17. "I was with my friend, I just said, I want one, and then I started from there."

She and some other smokers were standing on St Andrew Street in the centre of Dublin. Darcy said school may be a contributing factor to her addiction to nicotine.

"I started to stress smoking. We went out after school to take a break and smoke a cigarette. Then I started working, I made my own money, I bought my own cigarettes, and the situation got worse."

She smokes about 20 cigarettes a day and says that all her female friends are also smokers. "I know it's bad for you, but once you indulge in it, it's hard to stop. I just can't stop. I don't know why."

She does not touch e-cigarettes and works by heating flavoured liquids (usually containing tobacco) and inhaling steam. She doesn't know anyone who does this.

Adam Ellis (19) on South William Street, from Donnybrook, Dublin 4 is pulling an e-cigarette and he is walking with three male friends.

"I don't smoke anymore, I only smoke electronic cigarettes," Ellis said. "I started smoking when I was 17 years old. I just went out to drink and my partner was smoking, he gave it to me, and I started smoking while drinking."

Soon, on days when he was not drinking, he smoked the remaining cigarettes from the night before. "That's how I started."

A few months ago, Ellis started smoking e-cigarettes to quit smoking. Cigarettes are expensive, he doesn't like the smell, and sometimes they make him sick. On the day he was interviewed by The Irish Times, he inhaled an e-cigarette with a pineapple grapefruit ice flavor.

According to data collected by the European ESPAD Youth Survey, from the mid-1990s to 2015, the proportion of 15- and 16-year-olds who smoke in Ireland has steadily declined. The survey is conducted every four years.

However, by the time of the 2019 survey, the steadily decreasing trend had ended, indicating that the smoking rate among young people had begun to rise again.

The largest decline in youth smoking rates from 1995 to 2015 occurred in the years before the ban on smoking in workplaces in 2004. By definition, this measure did not directly affect young people.

This is an unexpected result. Said Professor Luke Clancy, an Irish respiratory physician.

"In general, if you want your children not to start smoking, just targeting them is not that successful. The reasons for this are complicated, but they include the fact that teenagers want to become adults."

During the workplace ban, the public’s extensive discussions on the dangers of smoking and not to addiction to cigarettes left an impression on teenagers.

Clancy said that public policies to reduce smoking rates include price increases, sales age restrictions and advertising bans. "If you want young people to quit smoking, then what works for others will also work for them."

According to the Irish Health Survey 2021, the overall smoking rate in Ireland is 18%. The 2019 ESPAD survey found that the smoking rate among 15-16 year olds is 14%. Ireland has developed a strategy that seeks to reduce the overall smoking rate to 5% by 2025. This may seem to be achieved among young people by 2019, but not for older smokers.

Clancy said: It is very disappointing to find that the only team that is possible to achieve this goal but they will not achieve it.

In a recent paper titled "The increase in smoking and e-cigarette use among young people in Ireland: New threats to the smoke-free threat in Ireland by 2025," Clancy and two others outlined the period from 1995 to 2015 that young people smoke (cigarettes). , Instead of e-cigarettes) fell from 41% to 13.1%; only in the 2019 survey found that the proportion of youth smoking increased to 14.4%.

The paper analyzes how the use of e-cigarettes has increased significantly in the four years to 2019. The proportion of people who have used this addictive nicotine product has increased from 23% to 37.2%, while the current usage rate has increased from 10%. Increase to 18%.

The study found an association between smoking and e-cigarette use. Teens who try to use e-cigarettes are at increased risk of becoming smokers-as a result, their life span is shortened by 10 to 15 years.

Smoking causes approximately 6,000 deaths in Ireland each year, more than COVid’s worst year, but unlike Covid, “there is an industry that promotes smoking],” Clancy said. "Their chance is anything they can see, and e-cigarettes are one of the things they see."

Clancy believes that social media, taste and packaging are among the factors used to target young people. He said that taste is used to attract young people, and the industry knows this. They are a delivery mechanism.

"One third of young people who start smoking will eventually die of smoking," said Chris Messi, director of communications at the Irish Heart Foundation.

"You can't prove that e-cigarettes are the cause of changes in the smoking trend among young people, but the changes in trends coincide with e-cigarettes."

Clancy and the co-authors of the most recent study also agree with this view, stating that other factors related to smoking among adolescents have not changed between 2015 and 2019.

They concluded: "We believe that our research results emphasize the negative impact of the increased use of e-cigarettes among young people on current young people's smoking."

Joe Dunne, who owns an e-cigarette retail business, is a spokesperson for the lobbying group Respect Vapers. He holds a different position on e-cigarettes and smoking.

Dunne left his position at Vape Business Ireland and established Respect Vapers to represent those who use e-cigarette products to help them quit smoking

He said that 250,000 people in Ireland have successfully quit smoking by replacing their habit with e-cigarettes. He added that research shows that e-cigarettes are at least 95% less harmful than smoking. He said that the argument that e-cigarette companies are owned by tobacco companies is often far from the truth.

Both e-cigarette organizations hold positions in the Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhalation Products) bill, which will prohibit the sale of e-cigarettes to people under 18, and has recently been reviewed by the Oireachtas Health Commission before legislation.

Vape Business Ireland stated on its website that it has long called for 18

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