This article reflects my opinion and thoughts only. It doesn’t express what MTLvaping.com is thinking as a whole. Also, it is not meant to insult or degrade anyone.

Does (teen) vaping lead to smoking? This is a question often asked, and immediately answered by a yes of course, in the now anti-vaping media. They call it the “vaping gateway to smoking”.

While it could be a legitimate question to ask and try to answer, the “Does vaping lead to smoking?” question is in fact a statement and an argument often used by anti-vaping actors to attack vaping and vapers.

But how does this vaping gateway theory stand up to scrutiny? Do the studies, even those cited by the media and officials, actually prove this claim?

You will discover by reading my two articles on this topic (the second will be published in a few days), that not only vaping does not lead to smoking in any significant way but that, if there’s, even among young adults and teens, a gateway between vaping and smoking, it’s actually in the other direction: from smoking to vaping. And that’s how it should be.