Raising teens

Teens Who Use Smokeless Tobacco Likely to Also Smoke Cigarettes

 

According to a national survey almost 19,000 school and high school going students who use smokeless tobacco they also smoke cigarettes.
The survey found 5.6 percent of young people reported using smokeless tobacco, including chewing tobacco, snuff or dip, or dissolvable products. Reuters reports that, Among teens who used only snus or dissolvable products, 81 percent also smoked cigarettes, about 72 percent said they also smoked cigarettes.
According to a news release, Teens with friends and family members who smoked were at highest risk of using both. Among them only 40 percent of teens using smokeless tobacco said they had plans to quit.
The article also notes snus and dissolvable tobacco products could encourage users to try conventional smokeless cigarettes and tobacco.
Lead researcher Dr. Gregory Connolly of the Harvard School of Public Health told Reuters, “We found higher current use than we expected. It’s just not experimentation, it looks like it’s taken hold among adolescents. The most distressing finding was that this is not resulting in children or in young adolescents switching from smoking to these new products that may or may not be safer when used alone. They’re using both in very high numbers.”

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