Towards a return to the debate on the famous “bridge effect” between e-cigarettes and smoking? In any case, this is what an American study published in November 2020 in the scientific journal suggests. Pediatrics. For the Dr. Yves Martinet, President of National Committee Against Smoking (CNCT), things are not simple but addiction to tobacco is possible through e-cigarettes.
IT IS DIFFICULT TO ANSWER THE QUESTION FORMALLY!
It is with our colleagues on the site " Doctissimo " that the Dr. Yves Martinet, President of National Committee Against Smoking (CNCT) chose to intervene on the thorny issue of the bridge effect between e-cigarettes and smoking. And as much to say it immediately, while the Month Without Tobacco is underway, it is clearly not the moment to argue on such an important subject.
For Dr Yves Martinet: “ It is difficult to answer the question formally" , he adds " "The countries have a more or less important nicotine impregnation. We smoke more in France than in Great Britain, for example. So it makes sense that the observations are not the same in every study. »
It is not surprising to imagine a young person who enters into an addiction by electronic cigarettes and who, one day when he has no more recharging, will ask for smoked tobacco and very easily slip from one to the other. the other, since the addiction is already installed "
Among our colleagues, Dr Yves Martinet gives his reasoning " If we take the example of a person addicted to nicotine, there are several entry points: smoked tobacco, electronic cigarettes, and heated tobacco. You can switch from one product to another or even combine two. Currently around 2 in 3 vapers continue to smoke tobacco. They entered into addiction to smoked tobacco and then added electronic cigarettes to it. But some go into addiction through electronic cigarettes «
