In"A qualitative study of e-cigarette emergence and the potential for renormalisation of smoking in UK youth," a study was conducted that displayed the relationship between trying e-cigarettes and smoking regular cigarettes among young people. The article finds that “some emerging studies indicate longitudinal associations between trying e-cigarettes and subsequently trying smoking among young people deemed otherwise non-susceptible to smoking” (Brown et al., 2020). This proves that e-cigarettes are another cause of a surge in young people smoking despite overall decreases in people smoking. Because these youth are trying e-cigarettes, they eventually feel the need to try regular cigarettes. However, if e-cigarettes did not exist, these children would otherwise never have the desire to smoke. This is because in "E-cigarettes, a safer alternative for teenagers? A UK focus group study of teenagers' views," the authors' findings state that "teenagers typically viewed e-cigarettes as substantially less harmful than traditional cigarettes” (Hilton, 2016). Since the perception of cigarettes is not the same on e-cigarettes, these adolescents think that it is not that harmful to use e-cigarettes. However, once youth start using e-cigarettes, and get a taste of the nicotine, it is easier for them to eventually try real cigarettes, creating this problem.