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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It wasn't until the definition of "addiction"" was changed to include smoking, prior to that it was considered a habituation
and it IS hard as hell for some people to quit smoking.
Because of the habituation of it. Everyone I know who decided to quit smoking, without the aid of any of the things Draino's people promote, have said the biggest problems have been finding something to do with their hands or their mouths - which is why so many folks who quit smoking immediately gain weight - they eat to satisfy the hand to mouth habit.
Quitting caffeine was far more difficult, I honestly thought the pain of the headaches was going to kill me. Of course no one ever talks about caffeine "addiction."
Caffeine is a vaso-constrictor. When it wears off the rebound can cause swelling of blood vessels in your brain, like you get with an alcohol hangover.
Save the Children!!
Nicotene is not a highly addictive drug.
You have to want, no, need to smoke.
It’s a head game. You program yourself by the stories you tell yourself.
I’ve been smoking since I was 27. It’s an on and off thing.
Sometimes I feel like smoking and most of the time I don’t been two weeks or so since my last cigarrette.
I tossed the last pack because I had only smoked about 1/2 in a month.
Just picked up a new pack yesterday and doesn’t look like I’ll be smoking tonight. Which was my plan.
Just not in the mood.
Probably gonna have a couple drinks but, not in the smoking mood.
Maybe I don’t tell myself the right stories to be addicted?
The leaves of tomato can be dried and cured in the same manner.
People also smoke lettuce and cabbage.
While most tobacco haters don’t believe it, there is actually a market for cigarettes that are made from plants other than tobacco. It was rather embarrassing for the state of Delaware and the anti-smoker cartel to learn/realize this because they wrote the smoking ban law specifically to tobacco and couldn’t change it without admitting the ban had nothing to do with “smoke” but only with that from burning tobacco.
“Second hand smoke” is second hand smoke, regardless of the source. If these bans were about “health” all indoor burning of anything would be banned. Smoke from burning tobacco is no more harmful/deadly to those not partaking than the smoke from anything else burning, and probably less harmful than many things.
You obviously live in a bubble since you are so concerned about impurities you are inhaling being a sin.
I sure as heck hope your diet doesn’t include anything with the evil nicotine in it - Eggplant Parmesan would be a killer for you, especially the way I make it because my sauce includes peppers..............
I do not smoke, in any form if that’s what you are trying to ask. This argument that its somehow okay for kids to smoke because there is nicotine in my pepper is beyond stupid
Since you have no clue in regard to the definition of any of those words - your comment is humorous.
Do you have a problem with teenagers becoming addicts?
Do you believe homosexuality is normal? Of course you do because you believe the same people who redefined habituation to mean addiction.
Always! For the Chirrren.
FReeper etiquette not observed here.................
You are also forgetting this is primarily a site for conservatives - nanny state supporters are NOT conservatives and this thread is not in the Religion forum section of the site.
hate them.
I haven't had an alcohol hangover in almost 25 years, (the morning after my divorce was final in 1988) but I had totally forgotten about how bad a caffeine "hangover" could be.
Excellent!!!
I use to tell myself I needed caffeine when I was younger. Gave myself palpitations many times.
Now, I have a cup of coffee or Diet Coke and that’s it.
I have horrible bruxism. Doesn’t matter that I use custom made night guards. I still wake up with a headache every morning.
a shot of caffeine helps knock the headache back quickly and I drink water the rest of the day.
Where did I ever say it was okay for ANYONE, let alone kids, to smoke? You’ve got 3 weeks on me on FR - please find one comment in all those years where I have ever said it was okay for kids to smoke. It’s a bad habit some people have taken up, but some of you nanny state lovers make it out to be far worse than it is or ever was.
Far more non-smokers or never smokers die of so called smoking related things than do smokers or former smokers.
Government provided statistics are a funny thing, for example - if a person leaves a bar after a couple of drinks and is walking down the sidewalk and a driver goes out of control and hits and kills that person that death is included in the alcohol related vehicular death numbers, even if the driver was absolutely sober. Most folks are unaware of that fact.
They play the same game with “smoking-related” deaths.
I haven’t totally eliminated caffeine from my diet, but I had to quit the coffee because it was just totally killing my gut. I still enjoy my iced tea or even a cup of tea, but tea never bothered my system the way coffee did. But neither is an every day thing and the lack of has never caused me the headaches.
isn’t that the topic of discussion?
and yes I have 3 weeks on you... noob... lol
I skip days of caffeine if my headache isn’t so bad and drink herbal teas or just big bottle of carbonated water.
You accused me of saying it was OK for kids to smoke - I don’t do that.
And it is actually on 20 days - not 3 weeks..........LOL!!!
Water or limeade/lemonade are my go to drinks - unless it is beer or wine :-)
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