[Drango]

Excellent. Do you have any insights/opinions on teenager addiction to nicotine?

[1035rep]

Addiction of any sort is not a good thing. I think it’s up to their parents to resolve.

[jjsheridan5]

Do you have any insights/opinions on teenager addiction to nicotine?

It is very unlikely for anyone to get addicted to nicotine via e-cigs (contrary to the inane 'nicotine is as addictive as heroin' lie). The addiction of cigarettes is poorly understood, but it is not a straightforward drug addiction. It appears that certain chemicals in tobacco, and certain chemicals used during the curing process, act in a manner similar to free-basing. Taken orally, or via the patch, or through a vapor, nicotine is at most only mildly addictive. Withdrawal effects are negligible, and in most clinical tests, not even noticed by the subjects.

In addition, nicotine itself has virtually no negative effects, and certainly not any serious ones, despite the 100s of millions of dollars spent on trying to find any such effects. What we do know, however, is that nicotine has a large number of positive effects, ranging from anti-depression, increased levels of concentration, alertness, and even tested IQ -- in a Duke study, students given nicotine via water tested far higher on intelligence than those given a placebo (an effect far in excess of supplements marketed as such), and, even more impressively, the effects didn't fade over time. If it weren't for smoking, in fact, it is not inconceivable that nicotine would be marketed as a supplement.

Finally, if you really are worried that nicotine dependence will result from ecig abuse by teens, make sure we outlaw salads as well, since nicotine is found in many edible vegetables.

I eagerly await the sounds of crickets, while waiting on your response.

[tacticalogic]

Are you fishing for an enumerated power?