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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This coming from a government that promotes butt sex.
I quit cigarettes 5 years ago using e-cigs. The cost is a small fraction of what cigarettes cost. California is complaining about all the smokers who switched to e-cigs after the last cig tax increase. The state and the feds are not getting the money they had hoped for.
Excellent. Do you have any insights/opinions on teenager addiction to nicotine?
Nothing ad hominem about my comment, unlike yours.
The same people that changed the definition of habituation to addiction are the same people who changed the definition of homosexuality from a mental disorder to a normal thing.
You take them on their word on one but not the other? You have an inconsistency here, don’t you?
More times than not when it comes to “smoking” you really have no clue of what you are speaking, you just spout the PC pharma lines because of your deep seated hatred of even the idea of anyone using tobacco in any way, shape, or form.
In my life, and that of many, many people I know, ditching the coffee was far harder than ditching the smokes. Cutting the coffee caused me nearly migraine level headaches. With cigarettes it was finding something to do with my hands.
Addiction vs. habituation.
You really should look into just who/what it is you believe and stop relying on your FEEEEEEEEELINGS............
Addiction of any sort is not a good thing. I think it’s up to their parents to resolve.
Most (not all) of the libertarian do your own thing, stop government camp, were dismayed when Sandusky was convicted of child molestation. After all, it’s for the parents to regulate their kids safety, not the government. Parents not society should decide if their kids become addicts or get molested was their mantra.
You are truly disgusting.
Me too. I didn’t lie to myself about quitting nicotine by using ecigs. I knew it was just a different nicotine delivery system.
I’m sure the tobacco lobby will fund a study about how bad ecigs wre, uncle sugar will tax the crap out of them. Give it time.
Bet ya can stink up the place with a fart and a $5.00 a cup coffee breath.
And you have the nerve to accuse me of ad hominem attacks?
BTW, I'm not, and have never been a libertarian and believed Sandusky should have been charged with a capital offense. So you can stick that attitude right up into the same dark hole that your knowledge of folks who enjoy tobacco exists.
well said!
It is not the tobacco industry doing the studies to do that, it is the anti-smoker lobby doing that.
It is organizations like the American Lung Association and companies like Johnson and Johnson that are promoting all of the anti e-cig "studies" and behind the push to have them banned the same way as actual cigarettes.
Thank you, my FRiend!!!!!!!!!
Stop pimping addiction and/or death. Someone might believe you that you care about kids.
I suggest you run with this one. Nicotine makes you smarter. Sure. Meanwhile all the other studies are junk. But this one, yeah, it's the real thing. Run with it.
Well, as a stimulant, it could. The question is do you want someone hooked on this stuff for the sake of the high.
Are you fishing for an enumerated power?
After more than 30 years of smoking, all I have now is my E-Cig. O2 blood level 99 and my lungs have never been better. My cardiac Doc is thrilled with them. If it is dangerous then so are the patches and gum.
What “other studies” are you referring to? Having researched this issue for years, I recall many studies that showed similar results, but I don’t recall any showing the opposite. What is so hard to grasp that a naturally occurring vegetable product may have a positive transitory effect on displayed intelligence?
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