It is said that the sum of loads is constant. When a bad habit stops, then another has it to take over.
That there is a truth in the old saying, shows a new report on young people’s nicotine habits from the National Institute of Public Health.
First the good news: Young people between the ages of 15 and 29 smoke fewer cigarettes than they did a year ago.
– The most important result must be that we see a decrease in the proportion of young people who smoke cigarettes, by about two percentage points, says Lotus Sofie Bast, senior researcher in tobacco prevention at the institute.
On the other hand, there are several who smoke on e-cigarettes, put a bag of a nicotine product under the upper lip or use chewing tobacco.
In a single year, those products have risen from being used by 27 percent of young people to 28.6 percent. In other words, they are used by more than one in four of the 13,530 participants in the survey.
Overall, it concludes that it is no longer enough to talk about how many people smoke cigarettes daily or occasionally.
Source: The Nordic Page