article_snippet: One in five teenagers have bought or tried electronic cigarettes, a major British study has found.
article_snippet: This includes many who had never smoked regular cigarettes.
article_snippet: This is feared youngsters hooked on the nicotine in the devices will then move on to tobacco cigarettes, putting tobacco cigarettes at risk of lung cancer and other diseases.
article_snippet: Experts warn that rather than being an aid to quitting smoking, e-cigarettes are increasingly seen as ‘a recreational drug in e-cigarettes own right’.
article_snippet: A fifth said 16,000 people aged 14 to 17 in the North West of England had bought or tried e-cigarettes.