China: Most E-Cigarette Users Are Former Smokers

Source from:  Vapingpost 12/10/2020

Data released by the Electronic Cigarette Industry Committee earlier this year, suggested that the combination of the media scrutiny in the US, and the online e-cig sales ban in China had caused the demand for vaping products to drop. Since then, with China being the country of origin of the coronavirus, the local vaping industry has taken another and even greater hit.

The study titled, “E-cigarette use among adults in China: findings from repeated cross-sectional surveys in 2015–16 and 2018–19,” aimed to determine the trend in e-cigarette use in China before policy implementation and associated factors.

The researchers assessed two nationally representative cross-sectional datasets from the China Chronic Disease and Nutrition Surveillance (CCDNS) surveys, initiated in 2015 (June, 2015 to May, 2016) and 2018 (August, 2018 to June, 2019).

The surveys were conducted at 298 national disease surveillance points in 31 provinces across mainland China, and used a multistage, stratified, cluster-randomised sampling design, recruiting Chinese participants aged 18 years and older. These resulted in 189 306 Chinese adults from the 2015 survey and 184 475 Chinese adults from the 2018 survey.