{"id":5731,"date":"2024-08-01T07:46:51","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T11:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldvapersalliance.com\/?p=5731"},"modified":"2024-08-12T07:48:50","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T11:48:50","slug":"worrying-increases-in-smoking-rates-observed-in-germany-what-is-the-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldvapersalliance.com\/en_gb\/worrying-increases-in-smoking-rates-observed-in-germany-what-is-the-cause\/","title":{"rendered":"Worrying Increases in Smoking Rates Observed in Germany. What is the Cause?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ongoing bi-monthly since 2016, the German Smoking Behaviour Survey<\/a> (DEBRA), revealed that smoking among teenagers in Germany is still the rise, greatly outpacing the use of vaping products. Currently, 14.9% of 14 to 17-year-olds smoke, compared to just 2.3% who vape. Moreover, the nation has actually experienced an increase in smoking rates across all age groups over the past eight years.<\/p>\n

Clearing the Air<\/em> highlighted<\/a> that the reason for this could lie in the fact that unlike some other countries, where vaping is increasingly used and encouraged as a smoking cessation tool, local health professionals do not commonly recommend vaping as a method to quit smoking. For example, in the UK, the National Health Service (NHS) has promoted vaping for smoking cessation<\/a>, contributing to a significant decline in smoking rates from 24.1% in 2010 to 12.5% as per recent surveys.<\/p>\n

About 30% of all Germans are smokers<\/h4>\n

The survey which has been monitoring tobacco and nicotine product use for almost a decade, summarized the overall increase in smoking as follows:<\/p>\n