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Latest figures from Germany show that the vilification of vaping has resulted in smoking rates increasing – including by a whopping 86% in teens. The data comes from the German DEBRA study, the equivalent to the English Smoking Toolkit Study and shows that the country that gave us the mighty Taifun atomiser tanks and stunning Dicodes mods needs to do some serious work on addressing tobacco harm reduction.
The project describes itself: “The German Study on Tobacco Use (Die Deutsche Befragung zum Rauchverhalten – DEBRA) is a bi-monthly representative, face-to-face household survey on the use of tobacco and alternative nicotine delivery systems (ANDS, such as e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products) in the German population.
“The study is coordinated by the Addiction Research and Clinical Epidemiology unit (Suchtforschung und klinische Epidemiologie) at the Institute of General Practice of the Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf.
“The study has been funded by the German Ministry of Health (2019 – current) and the Ministry for Innovation, Science and Research of the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia (2016 – 2019).”
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