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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Jabed Ahmed

A third of vaping teenagers likely to take up smoking cigarettes, study finds

British teenagers who vape today are just as likely to start smoking tobacco as young people growing up in the 1970s, new research has found.

A long-term study found that teenagers who vape now are 33 per cent more likely to take up tobacco compared to those who don’t, despite decades of falling smoking rates.

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