Led by a number of professors from University College London's Behavioural Science and Health, the study found that since 2013, the e-cigarette use rate among young people aged 16-17 in the UK has remained stable at 5%. The smoking rate of this group dropped from 30% in 2013 to 25% in 2018. After the British government promoted e-cigarettes to smokers as a smoking cessation tool, 50,000 smokers in the UK successfully quit smoking every year.

The report pointed out that many countries will be affected by the so-called gateway effect, which will promote various stringent e-cigarette regulatory policies. For example, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has introduced a ban on e-cigarette flavors for this reason. However, it remains to be demonstrated whether e-cigarettes have a portal effect of cigarettes.

This study just fills the gap in this field. Professor Lion Shahab, author of the report, said: "There are a large number of studies that have confirmed the harm reduction and smoking cessation potential of e-cigarettes. The effect will be more helpful for governments to formulate reasonable regulatory policies."

Lessons learned: U.S. flavor bans lead to rising teen smoking

Affected by the (FDA), some parts of the United States have adopted flavor bans.

However, after the ban was implemented, smuggling trade and black market transactions became more and more rampant, and a large number of unregulated electronic cigarettes with poor quality flowed out through the black market. In Massachusetts alone, more than 200,000 smuggled electronic cigarette products were seized in 2021. These Products seriously threaten the physical and mental health of users.

Even more surprising, the flavor ban actually led to an increase in teen smoking. A 2021 study from the Yale School of Public Health found that high school students under 18 were twice as likely to smoke as students in other areas after the flavor ban in San Francisco.

According to study author Abigail Friedman, a professor at the Yale School of Public Health, the ban only restricts teenage purchases, but does not eradicate the ideological motives of teens to smoke, especially since many teens smoke themselves, and the taste ban forces They went back to cigarettes.

Professor Friedman said: "I understand that policymakers have good intentions in implementing the ban on e-cigarette flavors, but if it increases the smoking rate of young people and indirectly promotes the use of cigarettes by minors, it will also pose a threat to public health."

Konstantinos Farsalinos, a leading scholar in the field of global tobacco control, expressed a similar view. He believes that properly regulated flavored e-cigarettes are an effective tool to prevent disease and save lives. Taste bans are harmful to society, fostering crime and threatening consumer safety. More seriously, such a policy will make more people smoke.

Facts have proved that the regulation of e-cigarettes is very important, but how to regulate is more important, and it is obviously unwise to make a one-size-fits-all approach to flavor e-cigarettes. On the basis of prohibiting minors from using e-cigarettes, how to meet the needs of adults for cigarette replacement and taste is a more reasonable supervision method.

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