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E-Cigarettes Finding New Users in Teens
Time ^ | Sept. 05, 2013 | Alexandra Sifferlin

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 ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: addicts; antitobaccoscam; biggovernment; ecig; followthemoney; scam; smokingiscool
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To: jjsheridan5

Point taken, I vape them everywhere!


61 posted on 09/05/2013 8:07:51 PM PDT by Bshaw (A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
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To: jjsheridan5
It's actually quite scary when you think of it.

Yes it is, because this type of derangement is why we have the cretin we have residing at 1600 Pennsylvania..

It's pharma or one of the body parts charities, not the tobacco industry.

Years ago I worked with a guy that had worked contract work for the tobacco industry and then got a job with the pharma industry trade association. He had to toe his bosses line, but his stories about how they lied were hilarious - if they weren't so dangerous.

But if not, it is frightening how close-minded true believers become.

This one is both close minded and a true believer, yet claims to be a conservative while promoting higher taxes and more government involvement in the live of people who disagree with s/h/it's view of how things should be.

62 posted on 09/05/2013 8:18:31 PM PDT by Gabz (Democrats for Voldemort.)
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To: Drango; SheLion; Eric Blair 2084; -YYZ-; 31R1O; 383rr; AFreeBird; AGreatPer; Alamo-Girl; Alia; ...

Nanny State PING!


63 posted on 09/05/2013 8:25:09 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Major brain damage at UMES, but no property damage!)
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To: Gabz; Drango

I find Drango to be an obnoxious busybody, but how can you infer from what he posted that he thinks homosexuality is a normal thing?


64 posted on 09/05/2013 8:28:12 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Major brain damage at UMES, but no property damage!)
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To: Gabz

I did some research for you...

Got Milk?

“The RR for lung cancer from ETS [secondhand smoke – ed.] exposure among never smokers is approximately 1.3 [Hackshaw et al., 1997].”

Steenland, Kyle, Carol Burnett, Nina Lalich, Elizabeth Ward, and Joseph Hurrell, “Dying for Work: The Magnitude of US Mortality From Selected Causes of Death Associated With Occupation”, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL MEDICINE 43:461–482 (2003), online at http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/awards/hamilton/pdfs/HumStuWin04.pdf, accessed on 04 SEP 2013.

“Subjects reporting consumption of whole milk 3 or more times daily had a 2-fold increase in lung cancer risk compared to those who reported never drinking whole milk (RR = 2.14).”

Mettlin C., “Milk drinking, other beverage habits, and lung cancer risk.”, Int J Cancer. 1989 Apr 15;43(4):608-12, online at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2703270 , accessed on 04 SEP 2013.

“Secondhand smoke causes lung cancer in nonsmokers…There is no safe level of exposure to secondhand smoke.”

National Cancer Institute Factsheet, “Secondhand Smoke and Cancer”, NIH, online at http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Tobacco/ETS , accessed on 04 SEP 2013.

So what is the safe level of exposure to Milk?


65 posted on 09/05/2013 8:43:55 PM PDT by patton (“Really? Have you tried chewing cloves?”)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Thanks for the ping!


66 posted on 09/05/2013 8:52:12 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: All

get this poison away from them and give them pot instead..


67 posted on 09/05/2013 8:55:36 PM PDT by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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To: patton

Don’t get me started on any of this at this time of night!

Hi there STRANGER! Haven’t heard from you in AGES!!!


68 posted on 09/05/2013 9:07:30 PM PDT by Gabz (Democrats for Voldemort.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks; Drango
I find Drango to be an obnoxious busybody, but how can you infer from what he posted that he thinks homosexuality is a normal thing?

I just used the same "logic" s/h/it used for the claim that using tobacco products makes one an addict.

The same people who redefined the word addiction to include tobacco use and more addictive than even heroin are the same people who determined homosexuality was not a mental disorder.

69 posted on 09/05/2013 9:19:10 PM PDT by Gabz (Democrats for Voldemort.)
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To: Drango

I thought that you wanted people to quit smoking.


70 posted on 09/05/2013 10:15:40 PM PDT by Eric Blair 2084 (I don't always drink beer, but when I do, I prefer to drink a bunch of them. Stay thirsty my FRiends)
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To: publana

Normal people would be embarrassed.


71 posted on 09/05/2013 10:21:53 PM PDT by Eric Blair 2084 (I don't always drink beer, but when I do, I prefer to drink a bunch of them. Stay thirsty my FRiends)
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To: Gabz

I am hiding in Afghanistan. ;)


72 posted on 09/05/2013 10:22:05 PM PDT by patton (“Really? Have you tried chewing cloves?”)
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To: Gabz

Drango is a very disturbed individual. Extremely mentally ill. Nicotine gum sold at WalMart for $59.76 could do him some good.

The campaign for tobacco free kids, the American Cancer Society, the American lung Association and the FDA for that matter are all heavily funded by contributions from big pharmaceutical companies.

The same pharmaceutical companies that make competing nicotine replacement products like Nicorette gum which just so happens to come in fruity and cherry flavors and mint that might appeal to kids like candy and gum. :-)

They stand to lose market share billions of dollars in sales if E cigarettes become more popular. This is their Waterloo.

You know they are desperate when they use children as human shields.


73 posted on 09/05/2013 10:28:05 PM PDT by Eric Blair 2084 (I don't always drink beer, but when I do, I prefer to drink a bunch of them. Stay thirsty my FRiends)
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To: Gabz

I meant that those in the ecig shops aren’t giving money to pharma or the gubmint which is a good thing in my opinion.


74 posted on 09/05/2013 11:25:23 PM PDT by publana (Beware the olive branch extended by a Dem for it disguises a clenched fist.)
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To: Eric Blair 2084

2084 isn’t happy unless thousands of kids are addicted every day.


75 posted on 09/06/2013 4:49:37 AM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: Eric Blair 2084

No argument from me!


76 posted on 09/06/2013 9:03:49 AM PDT by Gabz (Democrats for Voldemort.)
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To: publana

Gotcha! My apologies for the misunderstanding.


77 posted on 09/06/2013 9:04:21 AM PDT by Gabz (Democrats for Voldemort.)
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To: Drango
Maybe if people could smoke in bars, restaurants, their own homes or even outside, this would not be a problem.

But no, people like you cannot stand that.

78 posted on 09/06/2013 3:48:29 PM PDT by elkfersupper
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To: elkfersupper

I don’t get it. What would not be a problem?

Do you think Kids won’t smoke if we had schools handing out packs f cigarettes?


79 posted on 09/06/2013 3:50:50 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: elkfersupper
Any observation on "About 90 percent of all smokers begin smoking as teenagers." or are you just here to rant about your own problems?
80 posted on 09/06/2013 3:51:02 PM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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