Posted on 09/05/2013 4:20:42 PM PDT by Drango
Touted as a way to quit smoking, the latest data raise concerns that electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes, may actually be a gateway for teens into tobacco use.
~snip he said. “Nicotine is a highly addictive drug. Many teens who start with e-cigarettes may be condemned to struggling with a lifelong addiction to nicotine and conventional cigarettes.”
Most addictions to nicotine start at a young age,...suggest that a vast majority of students who use e-cigarettes also turn to conventional tobacco products as well.
~snip Whether e-cigarettes are actually safer than regular cigarettes isn’t clear; a recent study found that e-cigarettes can cause increased resistance in the airways, making it harder to breathe, within minutes of inhalation of the vapors, while other studies have suggested the products can help smokers to quit.
The Food and Drug Administration is currently studying the data on electronic cigarettes and plans to issue a regulatory rule on the products soon. ~snip
The agency’s rule will certainly take into consideration the question of how teens are using e-cigarettes, and will consider studies that investigate whether the products serve as a gateway to other tobacco use. “About 90 percent of all smokers begin smoking as teenagers. We must keep our youth from experimenting or using any tobacco product,” Dr. Tim McAfee, the director of the CDC Office on Smoking and Health said in a statement.
If, as the results suggest, e-cigarette use is tied to tobacco use among teens, then electronic cigarettes could be just as enabling as conventional cigarettes for nicotine addictions. “These dramatic increases suggest that developing strategies to prevent marketing, sales, and use of e-cigarettes among youth is critical,” said McAfee.
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Not sure what to make of that. I've never weighed more than 140, never seen green, and don't seem likely to do either in the future.
It’s a metaphor to a tree...
Well, nicotine IS addictive, as I understand it, and it IS hard as hell for some people to quit smoking.
It sucks to be color blind....
I think most people know that, those that don't weren't paying attention in chemistry class.
The leaves of tomato, potato, eggplant, and pepper plants can be dried and cured in the same manner as tobacco and the nicotine content can be manipulated in the same manner. But most people grow those plants for the fruit, not their leaves. And people also grow tobacco for the flowers, not to harvest the leaves.
Oh, I thought you meant your body had never seen a state in which it was green!
So do you view only in red and blue?
You don’t get nearly as much nicotine out of the other nightshade plants. Who smokes tomato?
Just because something is natural doesn’t make it okay to ingest
No red and no green. I seem to see be able to detect blue and orange better than normally color-sighted people, though.
I guess I got to appreciate what I can see. I never thought of what a greenless world would be like. Does an outdoor scene appear to you in various shades of red, blue, and mixes (purples/violets)? With things that other people call green appearing grey?
Does orange have an “orangeness” to you, or is it simply not-blue?
I grew up in my Dad's body shop. They let me mix paint once.
I’’m sure you are just as equally upset about the bakers, caterers, and photographers who have gone out of business because of people like you who want the government to determine the clientele of private businesses.
Thank you for your support of the Obama Administration’s desire too eradicate small business.
Orange and blue are very vivid. Color blindness seems to come in 2 different versions. The most common is red-green, which is what I have. Less common is blue-orange color blindness. It’s also an almost exclusively male trait - it’s very, very rare for a woman to be color blind.
Man, what it would be like to get into your head... you of course name colors according to what other people call them. But if your cones are not registering colors accurately, your idea of brown might be our idea of something else. We might even call it green, because it’s what God intended your green cones to respond to. That is one of the ineffable things about colors. My yellow could be someone else’s blue and we’d never be able to know it except for confusing colors with one another. That won’t be a problem in heavenly glory however. That will have beautiful stuff which can’t even register on any existing human eyes, not even mine. And we’ll all agree about what’s green!
God has nothing to do with this conversation, thus you are the one confused.
I’ve never known any different. It’s just something I’ve learned to adjust to, and there’s some things I need to avoid trying to do, at least without help. I work in IT now, and early in my career they put me to work in telecom. That lasted unil they sent me into a wiring closet in serch of a red-green pair.
I have no problem with merchants of death and addiction going out of business. None.
Back to the article. Do you have a problem with teenagers becoming addicts?
God laffs His head off (figuratively) at statements like that. He says hey Gabz I’m keeping everything here in existence including your own soul, gal....
Gabz is on one side of the God-has-nothing-to-do-with-this continuum. You’re on another side.
The merchants of death and destruction are Satan and his demons. Conquer them and people will stop wanting to do stupid things to themselves whatever the means!
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