Posted on 08/29/2014 8:47:32 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
A trade group representing the fast-growing electronic cigarette industry is contesting a new government study that claims the largely unregulated products lead teens on a path to tobacco cigarette smoking.
The American Vaping Association blasted this week’s study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), describing the assertion as “plain deceptive” and calling for the paper’s retraction.
The industry posits that e-cigarettes can actually help smokers quit, though they are prohibited from marketing the devices as a cessation tool.
“There is no evidence e-cigarettes are gateways to smoking, and in fact, for millions of Americans they are anti-tobacco protects,” said Gregory Conley, the association’s president.
The CDC report, issued earlier this week, found that more than 263,000 young people chose e-cigarettes when smoking for the first time last year, a threefold increase from 2011.
The vaping group, however, takes exception with the CDC’s assertion that young people who use e-cigarettes are twice as likely to say they’re inclined to try conventional cigarettes than those who don’t.
An analysis of the study concluded that teens who said they would “probably not” try cigarettes were counted as likely future smokers, the association said.
“Even worse, the CDC failed to disclose this in its press release, which led to hundreds of news sources identifying e-cigarettes as a gateway to cigarettes, Conley said.
Yeah, get good luck with that one under this administration.
The government has weaseled its way into the profiting of cigarettes.
They don’t want people to quit.
sucks to be a smoker.
I used E-Cigs to quit after smoking for more than 40 years.
I used the ones with no nicotine as I couldn’t tell them from the high content nicotine version.
It wasn’t that hard either.
To much lost revenue.
I don’t think they will help the pole smoker who just showed up though.
Nanny state or not, e-Cigs are disgusting and the air around them is as bad in their own way as the real things. The several times I’ve been around people trying to use these in confined spaces caused me and others to choke and get irritated throats.
Liar.
Y’all wouldn’t happen to be the sort of folks who started coughing when they saw a cigarette pack come out—before the cigarette was even lit, would you? I observed that countless times when I smoker. An unlit cigarette would provoke the same hacking a lit one would. We used to pull one out just for fun, to see how many people had that Pavlovian reaction.
There, fixed that statement - the pink elephant in the room...
Lol. You are wrong and to let you know just how wrong you are, I smoked my e-cig all the way from Ohio to Southern CA. I did use my shoulder wrap over my face like I was resting and vaped away. Now be real, I am sure there was at least one person, even an attendant, on that plane who, if they smelled something, would have complained.
SHUPNOOBFOOL
Actually they are reacting to you, not the unlit cigarette. Smokers don’t realize just how much they stink and how much they stink up everything else around them.
Now, about the gallons of perfume and other chemical scents people wear...(Axe is the worst). Talk about stink.
Thanks for the ping!
Forty years here, also.
Two things: Number one is that ecigs taste WAY better than tobacco, so if at teen tries the ecig first, the reaction to the tobacco will be “Yuck.”
Number two is that you don’t get the intense cravings with ecigs that you have with tobacco, so they’re not nearly as addictive. For many of these new vapers it’ll never turn into a daily habit.
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