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Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

"they could be a gateway into smoking for young people who would not otherwise try cigarettes."

or they could not


Its pointless making assumptions about things like this unless you have hard evidence to support it.

They could and probably will reduce teenage smoking drastically

again - lets see any evidence to support this

Is it only you allowed to make assumptions then? That article is from last year so this is hardly new info that the youth are the ones who have taken to ecigs. Is it due to tax, the cigarette industry trying to instill fear that these are as corruptive, or is medical evidence mounting that suggests the health benefits are not as great as first thought?

I'm a firm believer in 'if something looks too good to be true it is' so I say it's a mix of all three, but like you say the evidence atm is 'anecdotal'.