--- title: E-Cigarettes Should Be Last Resort to Quit Smoking: Doctors description: The American Heart Association's new policy statement addressed their dangers canonical: https://time.com/4229796/doctor-study-e-cigarettes/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-18T21:30:34.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T15:12:16.722Z article:section: Health og:title: E-Cigarettes Should Be Last Resort to Quit Smoking: Doctors og:description: The American Heart Association's new policy statement addressed their dangers og:url: https://time.com/4229796/doctor-study-e-cigarettes/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: E-Cigarettes Should Be Last Resort to Quit Smoking: Doctors twitter:description: The American Heart Association's new policy statement addressed their dangers twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # E-Cigarettes Should Be a Last Resort to Quit Smoking, Doctors Say by [Maggie Fox / NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## Maggie Fox / NBC News Feb 18, 2016 9:30 PM UTC by [Maggie Fox / NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## Maggie Fox / NBC News Feb 18, 2016 9:30 PM UTC E-cigarettes should be outlawed for minors and only be used as a last resort to quit smoking, the American Heart Association says in a new policy statement. And the Food and Drug Administration should hurry up and regulate them, the group says. New research shows that teens are not using e-cigarettes to quit. The latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey released Monday shows more than 263,000 middle-and high-schoolers who had never smoked before tried e-cigarettes in 2013\. That’s triple the number from 2011 and reinforces the argument that vaping can be a gateway to nicotine addiction. “Over the last 50 years… [_Read the rest of this story from our partners at NBC News_](http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/e-cigarettes-should-be-last-resort-heart-doctors-say-n187196?cid=par-time%5F20160218) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4229796/doctor-study-e-cigarettes/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4229796/doctor-study-e-cigarettes/"},"headline":"E-Cigarettes Should Be a Last Resort to Quit Smoking, Doctors Say","datePublished":"2016-02-18T21:30:34.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T15:12:16.722Z","description":"The American Heart Association's new policy statement addressed their dangers","url":"https://time.com/4229796/doctor-study-e-cigarettes/","keywords":["Research","Smoking","Cigarettes","Cancer","E-Cigarettes","FDA","CDC"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Maggie Fox / NBC News"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/research/","name":"Research"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4229796/doctor-study-e-cigarettes/","name":"E-Cigarettes Should Be a Last Resort to Quit Smoking, Doctors Say"}}]}] ```