August 13, 2018
Miech cited in Forbes piece on e-cigarettes
Richard Miech’s research on teen and young adult e-cigarette use was cited in a Forbes.com piece examining the vaping trend. Miech says, “vaping can provide a physical pathway to smoking by creating an addiction to nicotine. Among adolescents, vaping strongly predicts future cigarette experimentation.”
Related report: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018. Combustible Tobacco Cigarette Smoking Among Youth and Young Adults. In Public health consequences of e-cigarettes. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: https://doi.org/10.17226/24952.