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.
(Excerpt) Read more at healthland.time.com ...
Go withe the Duke study. It’s a winner.
You failed to respond to my question. You referred to “other studies” that show different results. What are they?
Seriously. The Duke study is a winner. The CDC study is junk. In fact every study except yours is bogus. You win.
What in heaven's name are you talking about?
How about addressing some of the points I've been making as opposed to your constant AH comments? Starting with where I have promoted either of the things you claim I promote.
Seriously, answer the question. Unless you can’t, because these “other studies” are only in your head.
I believe it was the head of tobacco research at John’s Hopkins (it may have been Harvard or BU), who said that one of the biggest mistakes made in the anti-smoking movement was the demonization of nicotine. Paraphrasing, nicotine has very little in the way of harmful side-effects, and, more importantly, has a wide range of positive ones. It was his belief that in attempting to hide this from the public, and even from themselves, researches blew an opportunity to understand why people smoked. For many it is the anti-depressant effects. For others, increased concentration, alertness, and displayed intelligence. For still others, it was the calming effects (nicotine has both a calming and a stimulative effect — milder than caffeine, however). Anyway, he went on to say that the anti-smoking movement, to be successful, must acknowledge this.
Given your obvious reluctance, I take it then that not only do you want deny smokers the only smoking cessation method that works, but you also want the research into understanding (accurately) the underlying factors in smoking, to be stymied.
Do you work for a tobacco company? They should be paying you.
I’m trying to help you. Take the Duke study. Tell the world. Sell it. Run with it. Ignore the junk science saying kids might get addicted to nicotine via e-cigs. Ignore it. It’s bogus. You have a winner! We acknowledge it.
Cotinine (spelling is WAY off on that word-sorry) is the marker for testing levels for determination of nicotine in the system and anyone who has a diet high in vegetables from the night shade family is going to have levels in their system. Every member of my household, including my 15yo is going to test positive because of the amount of tomatoes, potatoes, peppers and eggplant we consume on a daily basis.
Join up with jjsheridan5. You can make millions with your message! Despite what other bogus studies say/suggest, they are junk science and bogus. Bogus they are.
You can market the benefits of nicotine in every vape store and every mall in America. Yeah.
Let’s just agree that nicotine addiction is bad, and that there ought to be a law making nicotine non-addictive.
More likely works for a pharmaceutical company, as has their spiel absolutely down pat.
It is the pharma and body-parts industries that stand to lose MEGA bucks because of the availability of the e-cigs.
HUH?
I quit in December with them. It was actually easy with the ecigs.
Please excuse my previous comment - I totally agree with you!
The article is obviously an attempt to gin up public support for some legislative action to do something about teenagers getting addicted to nicotine, so let’s just pass a law that makes nicotine non-addictive. That should make everyone happy.
Complete horse hockey put out by those profiteering off tobacco. I have been using ecigs for years. Drango spewing more garbage on a subject of which he is clueless. Yet again. Don’t you ever tire of feeling foolish on this forum?
Go to an ecig shop and see what you can learn. As a non-smoker not addicted to nicotine, see if they recommend nicotine FREE ejuice.
I have yet to meet any ME types in any store. I have met many ex-analog cigarette smokers though. No taxes and no big pharma money. Horrors!
Yup!!!!!!!!!!!!
“Well, thanks to e cigs, I have not used tobacco in months. Much cheaper too.”
I used to smoke a pack of Marlboro lights per day. My mother smoked Winstons for more than 50 years. I could not stand to talk to her on the phone due to the hacking, phlegm gasps, and labored breathing in between sentences.
We both switched to e-cigarettes in 2011 and I can’t recall her ever sounding better. We can both breathe, taste, and spend our days not offending others.
I smoke them everywhere — at work, the car, my house, the grocery store, the airport, on the plane. Heh, heh, heh, it’s great! I don’t give a rat’s ass what the CDC says, they are demonstrably better for you than cigarettes!
I find that a strange comment after reading your entire post that also includes...
No taxes and no big pharma money. Government (taxes) and pharma are raking in HUGE quantities of $$$$$ because of the promotion of the anti-smoker mindset that was created by the government, pharma and the media.
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