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===Please see the page: [https://safernicotine.wiki/mediawiki/index.php/Myth:_Alternative_nicotine_products_are_a_gateway_to_smoking Myth: Alternative nicotine products are a gateway to smoking]===

===2016: Truth Blog: [https://www.clivebates.com/how-not-to-be-duped-by-gateway-effect-claims/ How not to be duped by gateway effect claims]===

: There are just too many desperately biased academic papers making ridiculous claims based on data and methods that could never describe a gateway effect. We should be looking at what is happening to the main trends in youth smoking, and this shows rapid declines in smoking and at a faster rate as vaping has risen. When you look at the full picture the data far more consistent with the vaping gateway being an ‘exit’ from smoking than an entrance.

*Truth Blog: [http://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2016/06/new-pediatrics-study-provides.html New Pediatrics Study Provides Absolutely No Evidence that E-Cigarettes are a Gateway to Smoking]

: 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. 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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 ===Please see the page: [https://safernicotine.wiki/mediawiki/index.php/Myth:_Alternative_nicotine_products_are_a_gateway_to_smoking Myth: Alternative nicotine products are a gateway to smoking]===
-===2016: <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 57, 33);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ff5733;">Truth</span> Blog: [https://www.clivebates.com/how-not-to-be-duped-by-gateway-effect-claims/ How not to be duped by gateway effect claims]===
-: There are just too many desperately biased academic papers making ridiculous claims based on data and methods that could never describe a gateway effect. We should be looking at what is happening to the main trends in youth smoking, and this shows rapid declines in smoking and at a faster rate as vaping has risen.  When you look at the full picture the data far more consistent with the vaping gateway being an ‘exit’ from smoking than an entrance.
-*<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 57, 33);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ff5733;">Truth</span> Blog: [http://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2016/06/new-pediatrics-study-provides.html New Pediatrics Study Provides Absolutely No Evidence that E-Cigarettes are a Gateway to Smoking]
-: 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. 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]