Study: Kids who vape tobacco are more likely to go on to use cannabis

Vaping is growing more prevalent among young people — in 2021, 1 in 9 high school students said they had vaped in the past month, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Increasingly, those kids are vaping cannabis. But is vaping a gateway to marijuana use?

A new study suggests that is the case, finding that adolescents who use e-cigarettes are over three times more likely to use cannabis than those who don’t — and that more than 1 in 10 youths who say they have never used cannabis go on to do so within a year.