Posted on 12/15/2016 5:14:26 AM PST by IBD editorial writer
Safety: Shortly after the Surgeon General denounced e-cigarettes as a terrible public health threat to young people, a national survey showed that his fears are misguided, and his proposed "remedies" could cause more harm than good.
The definitive Monitoring the Future survey found that "vaping" rates among teenagers dropped sharply between 2015 — the first year the survey asked about e-cigarette use — and last year. The share of high school seniors who reported vaping in the previous month, for example, went from 16.3% to 12.5%.
At the same time, smoking rates among teens continue to fall. Just 10% of seniors say they smoked a cigarette in the past month, which is half of the share who said that in 2009.
In short, both vaping and smoking rates are down among teens, so why is President Obama's Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy, clanging the public health alarm bells about vaping?
Murthy frets that too many young people are indulging in vaping. The Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control have issued similar dire warnings.
The main concern with e-cigarettes has been that it's like a gateway drug — vapers will eventually become smokers. But there's no evidence whatsoever to back this claim up.
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This country was a better place when most people smoked tobacco.
That’s not really a comment about tobacco. That’s a comment on the loss of freedom and personal choice, and the intrusion of the Nanny State to make sure that you make all the right decisions. They know what’s best for you.
How many deaths have been caused by ecigs?
ACTUAL ecigs -not the homemade mods that blow people’s faces off.
As far as I’m concerned, they’ve saved my life.
I have the opinion that vaping is less hazardous to health than smoking cigarettes. Many people here in MN were changing their habit to vaping, and E-Cig stores popped up all over the place. Not long into it, the powers that be in the state legislature realized that their tobacco tax cash cow was disappearing, so the discussion began to label the e-cigs ‘cigarettes’ and subject them to the same taxes as tobacco cigarettes. To me, the uproar about the e-cigs by the government is all about the money.
E-cigarettes are a drug delivery device.
“A terrible public health threat to young people”. So far, all they can point to as far as a health issue is that vaping will lead to cigarettes. Which, of course, there is no evidence of this. So when is the surgeon general going to come out about marijuana being a gateway drug to opioids?
I have vaped for over four years after being an almost lifetime smoker. I have not wanted or touched a cigarette. I feel great, lung capacity has improved greatly, no odor, no fire risk, can vape in my house, much less expensive and NO OUTRAGEOUS TAXES......which will soon change.
“E-cigarettes are a drug delivery device”
Yeah. So is your whiskey shot glass. And they both deliver drugs that have been a legal part of human culture for centuries.
The government has no business sticking their nose in this.
Vaping is both idiotic and dangerous. I know a friend who caught his son vaping, it took them two hours to get the film off the inside of the windows, the stuff was like goo. They can and do put all kinds of chemicals in the vape, just terrible. I’m all for making it illegal, it’s doing drugs, period.
And a way for the FDA to start their long-desired classification of nicotine as a drug.
When my Wife was going through her cancer treatments, we asked all of these new doctors that we met what their opinions of ecigs were.
Not a single one suggested that they were dangerous. Our regular doctor even applauds her patients who have quit smoking with ecigs.
It’s all about the loss of tax revenue.
So I am reading my Vape liquid and FYI, here are the ingredients. USP Certified propylene glycol ( if you eat ice cream you eat PG), USP Grade vegetable glycol (used in too many foods to list), USP Grade nicotine (can be adjusted to ones needs), natural and artificial flavoring (once again, in just about every food). It is reckless to discourage smokers to not vape.
Don’t know what your friend was using but my windows are immaculate. I only purchase my vape products from top of the line retailers. The best is VAPOR-FI, which can be found on line and there are many stores around the country.
Crazies get worked up into histrionics over it as well.
Mankato has banned e-cigs from being used indoors. Same regulations as actual cigarettes. I suppose because they believe second hand water vapor is dangerous?? My boss stopped at an e-cig store there, started to try the sample they had displayed and the employee rushed to get him outside. Ridiculous.
Thanks for the heads up on VAPOR-FI. I’ll have to check it out.
I’ve been using Totally Wicked’s juice since 2008.
Get rid of these idiotic things.
Vapor-Fi is corporate and also franchised owned. They are above the national standards and only use certified and top of the line products. The stores are all identical, immaculate, classy and the employees who mix the liquid, etc use latex gloves for sanitary purposes, informed and well trained, etc. They have been likened to the Starbucks of Vaping (lol, hate using that but that has been the reviews). If you have one in your area, check it out.
I know there’s still a lot of unsettled ‘science’ that remains around the effects of the ‘juice’ inside these e-cigs and vaporizors. What I can say is that I appreciate not having all my ‘smoking’ coworkers sitting around me smelling like ashtrays.
Those devices are saving lives everyday while lowering health care costs the public will pay to treat people with lung cancer, and other smoking related diseases, and no insurance to cover it.
Exactly.
These idiot alarmists....
I work in the food manufacturing industry. We use propoline glycol and vegetable glycerin in a lot of the products we make. people consume these substances on a near daily basis in the food they eat.
These two substances are what is used in vape juice. I guess these morons should ban food too.
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