Posted on 08/17/2019 4:55:31 AM PDT by Drango
The Real Dangers of Vaping Are Only Now Beginning to Be Understood
Nicotine toxicity, formaldehyde, and a whole host of new carcinogens. Yes, vaping is bad for you. Perhaps, experts are starting to think, worse than cigarettes. Let’s start with some good news: Fewer teenagers are smoking than ever before. According to a January 2019 report from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the number of teens who smoke cigarettes daily has dropped 88 percent since the mid-1990s. But, as we all know from the cloudy corners on the outskirts of high schools, more teens are flirting with the dangers of vaping instead. Many more. Today, a whopping 21 percent of high schoolers use e-cigarettes, up from just 1.5 percent in 2011, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For middle-school kids, vaping rates rose from 0.6 percent in 2011 to 4.9 percent last year, a 49 percent increase over 2017.
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When you put all that together, it is much easier to inhale, so Juul devices deliver a much higher dose per puff.”
This may be why kids seem to be getting addicted to Juul much faster than they got hooked on traditional cigarettes and even older e-cigarettes.
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Overall, the evidence clearly shows vaping is exceptionally risky for and even immediately harmful to teens.
It’s a drug delivery device for administering the drug nicotine. Regulate and tax accordingly.
Nothing is made better by addicting people to nicotine.
Econ 101. The iron law of supply & demand still works.
As the price of an object increases the demand drops.
Well said!
It isn’t a conservative value to not understand the article.
Still? I had heard about that in the past.
I don't know if it is necessary to have formaldehyde in the vape capsules to deliver nicotine or not, or why it was there in the first place. I could hazard a guess that it might have been there as a preservative, but don't really know.
I was in an ER waiting room recently and there was a couple vaping...blowing out billowing clouds of their disgusting shyte. I approached a hospital guard standing at the counter and asked if smoking was allowed in the waiting room...he said “no” in kind of a shocked manner. I said “how about vaping?”. Again he said no. I pointed at the couple, and he was off to run’em out.
People are just idiots.
I must admit I haven’t kept up with the latest on cigarettes. I’m a non smoker who grew up in a family who did smoke and our farm grew both dark fired and burley tobacco. So we have a yin=yang relationship.
But I don’t put people down for their choices, just live with the consequences.
I'm with you. The Anti-Smoking Nazis are doing the same with vaping as with smoking. But pot is OK though.
I quit 3-packs a day 20 years ago and I don't vape. But it's obvious what is going on with the anti-vaping.
I read the article.
I just don’t treat teenagers as children but young adults learning to make adult decisions.
Some decisions are bad, they know smoking isn’t a health enhancers.
Two other factors:
1) Social Security going broke was SOLVED for at least the next 100 years with the deal Reagan and Congress agreed to in 1986. Now its cost is growing twice as fast, and it won’t even make it half of that time. What changed? People live longer when they don’t smoke.
2) Medical costs have gone through the roof for the elderly. What changed? Instead of dying relatively quickly and cheaply of smoking-related illnesses, people live much longer...and spend a lot more on medical stuff over those extra years.
One could also argue that the obesity/diabetes epidemic seems to correlate quite well with the reduction of smoking, although there are bigger factors involved with that huge problem.
Do you have any evidence to back up that assertion? A cursory examination from my own experience shows no reduction of live band/bar music performances compared to those 25 years ago.
The increase in obesity could simply be due to the prevalence of more sedentary occupations as computer-aided desk jobs proliferated in the past generation since the introduction of the PC in the early 1980s, as seen by the inflection point in the red line.
If it’s any form of smoke I don’t want it in my mouth, sinuses or lungs.
This coming from an ex smoker of cigarettes and pot quitting decades ago.
Isn’t there a statistic out there of the life expectancy of male smokers vs. Homos? Something like 65 vs 48? Why don’t they talk about THAT?
Stupid is as stupid does.
Do you have any evidence to back up that assertion? A cursory examination from my own experience shows no reduction of live band/bar music performances compared to those 25 years ago.
It's is a biased sample but in NYC there was a thriving live music scene for new, unsigned bands in the 1990s-early 2000s. On Bleecker St there were many places where bands could get a set without having to pay to play, and they'd get asked back if they drew 20+ people.
Then the smoking ban came into effect. One YUGE venue went out of business because, as the owner's son told me, people used to hang all night. With the ban, people would walk outside for a smoke after their friend's band's set...and not return. Drink sales collapsed and they quit. Other places folded, too.
Nowadays there are very few places where a band can play unless they pay to play. Those who DO pay bring in their 10 fans and then they leave after their set. To be fair, this partly the bands' own undoing - you need a SCENE to have people come to a venue. Indeed, one place in North Jersey that caters to hard rock and heavy metal has achieve this, though there is some pay for plat at times. But in my travels along the eastern seaboard, there aren't too many places left like those from the "good old days."
Is this ALL due to the smoking ban? Probably not. Do ALL people hate bans? I do on philosophical grounds (it is a type of taking of private property rights without just compensation) but I like that my clothes don't smell like cigarettes - but I would rather suffer the latter than endure the former. Did anyone care about the collateral damage to smoking bans? No...like all statist policies, they only care about the first-order effects.
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