Okuningi Osemncane Abantu baqala ukusebenzisa i-nicotine ukukhala kunogwayi wesintu. Ucwaningo olusha olwenziwe yiMedical University of South Carolina (MUSC) luveza lokho okokuqala ngqa. Lokhu kushintsha okuphawulekayo kwamaphethini okusetshenziswa kukagwayi kuye kwabonwa eqenjini leminyaka engu-18 kuya kwengu-24, nenani elikhulayo labantu abangakaze babheme ugwayi abakhetha ukufutha.
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Umcwaningi we-MUSC Hollings Cancer Centre uBenjamin Toll, ophinde abe ngumqondisi we-MUSC Health Tobacco Treatment Programme, ugcizelela isimo soguquko salo mkhuba. Uthi, “Manje sesinoguquko ngendlela yokuthi ‘akukaze kwenzeke ababhemayo' ovape ukwedlula ababhemayo. Laba 'abangakaze babheme' mancane amathuba okuba baqale ukubhema ugwayi ovuthayo—kungenzeka ukuthi baqhume futhi baqhubeke befufusa. Futhi yileli qembu, elineminyaka engu-18 kuye kwengama-24, elizobikezela abasebenzisi abafaka umphunga esikhathini esizayo.”
Ithimba labacwaningi liqoqe idatha evela Ocwaningweni Lokuhlolwa Kwesibalo Sabantu Sogwayi Nezempilo (PATH), inhlolovo yelongitudinal kazwelonke eyenziwa ngokubambisana neNational Institutes of Health kanye ne-US Food and Drug Administration. Ucwaningo, olwaqala ngo-2013, lunikeze ukuqonda okubalulekile ngamagagasi ayisithupha okuqoqwa kwedatha.
Ukuqedela ucwaningo lwabo, abacwaningi banikezwe ukufinyelela kudatha ekhawulelwe yegagasi lesithupha, elihlanganisa izimpendulo zenhlolovo kusukela ngo-2021, ngaphambi kokukhishwa kwayo esidlangalaleni. Ukuhlaziywa kwale datha kuqinisekise ukuthambekela okuqhubekayo okuphezulu kwe-vape, ikakhulukazi phakathi Osemncane abantu abadala.
Ngokuphawulekayo, iningi Osemncane abadala, ababalelwa kumaphesenti angama-56, abavamise ukudalula ukuthi abakaze babheme njalo ugwayi.
Ngokocwaningo lwe-PATH, amaphesenti angu-14.5 abantu abaneminyaka engu-18 kuya kwengama-24 abike ukusetshenziswa kwe-vape evamile, okuyisibalo esiphezulu kunamaphesenti angu-11 abikwa ngaphambilini yiCenters for Disease Control and Prevention. I-toll ilindele ukuthi ukukhishwa kwegagasi elilandelayo ledatha ye-PATH Study ekwindla ka-2024 kuzokhombisa ukukhuphuka okwengeziwe kulezi zibalo.