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===2021: Truth [https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://www.sciencemediacenter.de/alle-angebote/research-in-context/details/news/e-zigaretten-als-einstieg-zum-zigarettenrauchen/ E-cigarettes as an introduction to cigarette smoking?]===

*Statements:

*; Prof. Dr. Ute Mons, Head of the Cardiovascular Epidemiology of Aging Working Group, Clinic III for Internal Medicine, Cologne University Hospital : “Since there was no statistical control for possible disruptive factors, a causal interpretation, as it is heard between the lines by the authors, is not justified. It should also be taken into account that the study period ran from 2013 to 2017, but the sale of e-cigarettes to young people in the USA was not banned until 2016.For a long time, e-cigarettes were simply more readily available to young people than conventional cigarettes."

*; Prof. Dr. Daniel Kotz, Professor of Addiction Research and Clinical Epidemiology, Institute for General Practice, University Hospital Düsseldorf : “Overall, there is no clear scientific evidence that e-cigarettes are an entry point into tobacco consumption for adolescents and young adults. It is more likely that a personal basic inclination towards nicotine products and the social environment influence the consumption of e-cigarettes or tobacco independently of one another (so-called common liability theory). International studies show that tobacco smoking is falling among adolescents, even in countries where the consumption of e-cigarettes has increased [2]. This contradicts the so-called gateway theory."

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===2018: Truth [https://dailycaller.com/2018/01/07/expert-debunks-vaping-gateway-myth-ripping-bad-science-in-service-of-bad-theories/ Expert Debunks Vaping ‘Gateway’ Myth, Ripping ‘Bad Science In Service Of Bad Theories’]===

*The recent studies claiming vaping leads to smoking only prove that youths experiment, and they cannot show the true cause behind teen smoking, which is at a record low.

: The recent studies claiming vaping leads to smoking only prove that youths experiment, and they cannot show the true cause behind teen smoking, which is at a record low.

===2018: Truth [https://rodutobaccotruth.blogspot.com/2018/01/tobacco-gateway-report-omits-important.html Tobacco Gateway Report Omits Important Information]===

*The Chaffee article emphasizes odds ratios but omits or obscures important contextual information. While teens who try one tobacco product are more likely to try another, the dominant gateway in the PATH survey was from no previous tobacco use to cigarettes.

: The Chaffee article emphasizes odds ratios but omits or obscures important contextual information. While teens who try one tobacco product are more likely to try another, the dominant gateway in the PATH survey was from no previous tobacco use to cigarettes.

*Debunked Study [https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2666219 Association of Noncigarette Tobacco Product Use With Future Cigarette Smoking Among Youth in the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study, 2013-2015]

===2017: Truth [https://dailycaller.com/2017/08/30/vaping-study-sinks-claims-e-cigarettes-are-hooking-teens-on-tobacco/ Vaping Study Sinks Claims E-Cigarettes Are Hooking Teens On Tobacco]===

*The hysteria over vaping allegedly serving as a gateway to smoking for teens is unfounded and goes against scientific evidence, according to a new study.

: The hysteria over vaping allegedly serving as a gateway to smoking for teens is unfounded and goes against scientific evidence, according to a new study.

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: The study counted anyone who had even puffed a cigarette once as being a smoker. So theoretically, a subject could have had a single puff of an e-cigarette and hated it, and then had a single puff of a cigarette and hated it, and they would be considered someone who initiated smoking because of vaping first.

*Truth Statements: [https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-study-on-e-cigarettes-and-future-cigarette-use/ Expert reaction to study on e-cigarettes and future cigarette use]

: Prof. Ann McNeill, Professor of Tobacco Addiction at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London - “The gateway hypothesis in the addictions field is frequently used but is highly contested as it has a poor evidence base in general. This study does nothing to strengthen that evidence base.”

*; Prof. Ann McNeill, Professor of Tobacco Addiction at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London : “The gateway hypothesis in the addictions field is frequently used but is highly contested as it has a poor evidence base in general. This study does nothing to strengthen that evidence base.”

: Prof. Peter Hajek, Director of the Tobacco Dependence Research Unit at Queen Mary University of London - "Like several previous studies of this type, this one just shows that people who try things, try things."

*; Prof. Peter Hajek, Director of the Tobacco Dependence Research Unit at Queen Mary University of London : "Like several previous studies of this type, this one just shows that people who try things, try things."

*Debunked Study: [https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2016/06/10/peds.2016-0379 E-Cigarettes and Future Cigarette Use]

*Debunked Article: [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-ecigarettes-idUSKCN0YZ0C0 Vaping teens more apt to move on to regular cigarettes: U.S. study]

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===2015: Truth [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4454978/ Gateway Effects: Why the Cited Evidence Does Not Support Their Existence for Low-Risk Tobacco Products (and What Evidence Would)]===

*The simple counts of when subjects first tried a cigarette show earlier smoking among those who had tried e-cigarettes as compared to those who never tried e-cigarettes, which by itself is enough to favor the THR interpretation over the gateway interpretation.

: The simple counts of when subjects first tried a cigarette show earlier smoking among those who had tried e-cigarettes as compared to those who never tried e-cigarettes, which by itself is enough to favor the THR interpretation over the gateway interpretation.

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 ===2021: <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 57, 33);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ff5733;">Truth</span> [https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://www.sciencemediacenter.de/alle-angebote/research-in-context/details/news/e-zigaretten-als-einstieg-zum-zigarettenrauchen/ E-cigarettes as an introduction to cigarette smoking?]===
+*Statements:
 *; Prof. Dr. Ute Mons, Head of the Cardiovascular Epidemiology of Aging Working Group, Clinic III for Internal Medicine, Cologne University Hospital : “Since there was no statistical control for possible disruptive factors, a causal interpretation, as it is heard between the lines by the authors, is not justified. It should also be taken into account that the study period ran from 2013 to 2017, but the sale of e-cigarettes to young people in the USA was not banned until 2016.For a long time, e-cigarettes were simply more readily available to young people than conventional cigarettes."
 *; Prof. Dr. Daniel Kotz, Professor of Addiction Research and Clinical Epidemiology, Institute for General Practice, University Hospital Düsseldorf : “Overall, there is no clear scientific evidence that e-cigarettes are an entry point into tobacco consumption for adolescents and young adults. It is more likely that a personal basic inclination towards nicotine products and the social environment influence the consumption of e-cigarettes or tobacco independently of one another (so-called common liability theory). International studies show that tobacco smoking is falling among adolescents, even in countries where the consumption of e-cigarettes has increased [2]. This contradicts the so-called gateway theory."
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 ===2018: <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 57, 33);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ff5733;">Truth</span> [https://dailycaller.com/2018/01/07/expert-debunks-vaping-gateway-myth-ripping-bad-science-in-service-of-bad-theories/ Expert Debunks Vaping ‘Gateway’ Myth, Ripping ‘Bad Science In Service Of Bad Theories’]===
-*The recent studies claiming vaping leads to smoking only prove that youths experiment, and they cannot show the true cause behind teen smoking, which is at a record low.
+: The recent studies claiming vaping leads to smoking only prove that youths experiment, and they cannot show the true cause behind teen smoking, which is at a record low.
 ===2018: <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 57, 33);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ff5733;">Truth</span> [https://rodutobaccotruth.blogspot.com/2018/01/tobacco-gateway-report-omits-important.html Tobacco Gateway Report Omits Important Information]===
-*The Chaffee article emphasizes odds ratios but omits or obscures important contextual information.  While teens who try one tobacco product are more likely to try another, the dominant gateway in the PATH survey was from no previous tobacco use to cigarettes.
+: The Chaffee article emphasizes odds ratios but omits or obscures important contextual information.  While teens who try one tobacco product are more likely to try another, the dominant gateway in the PATH survey was from no previous tobacco use to cigarettes.
 *<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">Debunked</span> Study  [https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2666219 Association of Noncigarette Tobacco Product Use With Future Cigarette Smoking Among Youth in the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study, 2013-2015]
 ===2017: <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 57, 33);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ff5733;">Truth</span> [https://dailycaller.com/2017/08/30/vaping-study-sinks-claims-e-cigarettes-are-hooking-teens-on-tobacco/ Vaping Study Sinks Claims E-Cigarettes Are Hooking Teens On Tobacco]===
-*The hysteria over vaping allegedly serving as a gateway to smoking for teens is unfounded and goes against scientific evidence, according to a new study.
+: The hysteria over vaping allegedly serving as a gateway to smoking for teens is unfounded and goes against scientific evidence, according to a new study.
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 : The study counted anyone who had even puffed a cigarette once as being a smoker. So theoretically, a subject could have had a single puff of an e-cigarette and hated it, and then had a single puff of a cigarette and hated it, and they would be considered someone who initiated smoking because of vaping first.
 *<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 57, 33);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ff5733;">Truth</span> Statements: [https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-study-on-e-cigarettes-and-future-cigarette-use/ Expert reaction to study on e-cigarettes and future cigarette use]
-: Prof. Ann McNeill, Professor of Tobacco Addiction at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London - “The gateway hypothesis in the addictions field is frequently used but is highly contested as it has a poor evidence base in general. This study does nothing to strengthen that evidence base.”
+*; Prof. Ann McNeill, Professor of Tobacco Addiction at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London : “The gateway hypothesis in the addictions field is frequently used but is highly contested as it has a poor evidence base in general. This study does nothing to strengthen that evidence base.”
-: Prof. Peter Hajek, Director of the Tobacco Dependence Research Unit at Queen Mary University of London - "Like several previous studies of this type, this one just shows that people who try things, try things."
+*; Prof. Peter Hajek, Director of the Tobacco Dependence Research Unit at Queen Mary University of London : "Like several previous studies of this type, this one just shows that people who try things, try things."
 *<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">Debunked</span> Study: [https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2016/06/10/peds.2016-0379 E-Cigarettes and Future Cigarette Use]
 *<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">Debunked</span> Article: [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-ecigarettes-idUSKCN0YZ0C0 Vaping teens more apt to move on to regular cigarettes: U.S. study]
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 ===2015: <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 57, 33);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ff5733;">Truth</span> [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4454978/ Gateway Effects: Why the Cited Evidence Does Not Support Their Existence for Low-Risk Tobacco Products (and What Evidence Would)]===
-*The simple counts of when subjects first tried a cigarette show earlier smoking among those who had tried e-cigarettes as compared to those who never tried e-cigarettes, which by itself is enough to favor the THR interpretation over the gateway interpretation.
+: The simple counts of when subjects first tried a cigarette show earlier smoking among those who had tried e-cigarettes as compared to those who never tried e-cigarettes, which by itself is enough to favor the THR interpretation over the gateway interpretation.
 =<span style="background-color: rgb(51, 254, 255);" data-mce-style="background-color: #33FEFF;">Myth</span> ENDS - Heavy Metals at dangerous levels=

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