The Star: October 14, 2021

The Star Thursday October 14 2021
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STUDENTS ARE vaping more
since nicotine-containing
e-cigarettes became legal in New
Zealand in 2018, a research team
led by Canterbury University
Health Sciences Adjunct Fellow
Dr Ben Wamamili has found.
Nearly 2000
students were
surveyed in
March 2018,
just before
nicotinecontaining
e-cigarettes
became legal,
and almost
the same
number of
students were surveyed a year
later, across all of New Zealand’s
universities.
Wamamili’s team found that
13.5 per cent of students were
vaping in 2019 compared to
6.8 per cent before it was legal.
Slightly more students were
smoking regular cigarettes in
2019 (12.1 per cent) than in 2018
(10.6 per cent).
The results were unexpected.
“Yes, we were surprised by a
significant increase in students
who vaped in 2019 without
a corresponding decrease in
students who smoked cigarettes,”
Wamamili said.
“This suggests that students
are not necessarily turning
to vaping as a way to give up
cigarette smoking.”
Another startling find was that
more students seem to be vaping,
illegally, in smoke-free spaces.
“The apparent increase in
students vaping in smoke-free
spaces is of great concern. If
vaping in smoke-free spaces
became widespread and led to
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Vaping on the increase among students
Ben
Wamamili
increased tobacco smoking in
these spaces, this would be a
source of considerable harm to
public health.”
Students were also less likely
to perceive e-cigarettes as less
harmful than tobacco after they
were widely available.
“There was a significant
decrease, of 3.1 per cent,
in students who perceived
e-cigarettes as less harmful
than tobacco cigarettes in 2019
compared with 2018. The Ministry
of Health encourages smokers
to use e-cigarettes for tobacco
cessation,” Wamamili said.
The issues can be addressed
with better education and
possibly by using technology,
he said.
“Education and health
promotion strategies including
compliance with the smoke-free
legislation is a good starting
point. Technologies such as
mobile phone apps could also be
harnessed by health providers
to provide accurate and reliable
information about vaping.”
Wamamili’s research
paper Cigarette smoking and
e-cigarette use among university
students in New Zealand before
and after nicotine-containing
e-cigarettes became widely
available: results from repeat
cross-sectional surveys was
published in the New Zealand
Medical Journal on October 8.
It was
co-authored
by the
Canterbury
University’s
Professor
Randolph
Grace, School
of Psychology,
Randolph
Grace
Speech and
Hearing, and
Pat Coope,
who recently retired from the
College of Education, Health and
Human Development.
New Zealand aims to become
a smoke-free nation by the year
2025; the Government began
working toward this goal in 2011.
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