Posted on 08/18/2015 1:13:01 PM PDT by Drango
Students in Los Angeles who used electronic cigarettes were more likely to start smoking combustible tobacco products like cigarettes, cigars and hookas, the Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) found in a new study.
The study, which surveyed 14-year-olds in the ninth grade at 10 Los Angeles high schools, found that the kids who smoked e-cigarettes were 22.7 percent more likely to smoke combustible cigarettes the following year.
Citing 2014 U.S. estimates, JAMA said 16 percent of 10th graders reported use of e-cigarettes within the past 30 days, of whom 43 percent reported never having tried combustible cigarettes.
Health groups used the new data, released Tuesday, to renew efforts to push the Food and Drug Administration to finalize its tobacco deeming regulation and for the first time regulate all tobacco products, including e-cigarettes and cigars.
“We should not wait for a new generation to become addicted tobacco users to regulate e-cigarettes and prohibit marketing to minors,” American College of Cardiology President Kim Allan Williams Sr. said in a statement. “Changes in attitudes about smoking, regulation of advertising and the resulting declines in tobacco use have contributed significantly to reductions in heart disease wherever implemented around the world in the last 30 years.”
Williams said the FDA should move forward to prevent heart disease and maintain positive trends.
The American Heart Association said the findings should be yet another "wake-up call" to the FDA.
“As this study reinforces, we have a real problem on our hands," AHA CEO Nancy Brown said in a statement. "E-cigarette use has tripled among teens, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey, and the evidence released today adds fuel to the fire."
Brown said the wait for a final deeming rule has gone on too long.
"It has been over a year since the FDA first released its proposal," she said. "As this study suggests, the public health nightmare that is tobacco is only getting worse and all tobacco products present risk.”
See #1
Then let's talk about smoking POT, no one seems to wonder what the serious health risks are there for say the smoker, second hand hazards for anyone present when pot is smoked - nope it's E Cigarettes that's out to endanger everyone!
And shame on JAMA using stats acquired from 9th graders from 10 schools in one city as reason to come to a valid “conclusion”.
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That same 20% would have found their way to cigarettes anyway. Both are illegal for them to buy.
Asked and answered. See my comment in #1.
Then what is the point of showing a study which shows, nothing. It does not suggest “gateway”, because it shows no causation. You say it may take a while to show “more evidence”, but that implies that “some evidence” has been given, and it hasn’t. This is a worthless study leading idiots to the wrong conclusion.
This shows absolutely no evidence of there being a gateway effect.
so.....how did people start smoking tobacco in the 5000 years before they were invented?
As soon as some bureaucrat figures out how to tax e-cigs, the government will cheer lead for them.
I like that quote.
A forty-year-old having a cigarette with his coffee at Denny's, society can survive.
As soon as some bureaucrat figures out how to tax e-cigs, the government will cheer lead for them.
about 30years ago in Europe they did a study of Heroin Addicts, the study set out to prove that Marijuana was the real gateway drug to harder drugs, funny thing happened when they interviewed these people, almost none of them EVER SMOKED WEED, But Every Last one of them Smoked Cigarettes and Drank Alcohol. Study was subsequently buried and not widely publicized.
Hey Tobacco bad... Wacky Tobaccy good.. Can’t smoke cigs but you can sure smoke MJ anywhere...
At least half of the strip shopping centers in my town have Vape stores where the liquid “smoking” product is mixed on-site.
Regulation will wipe out most of them.
The issue is that they can’t tax e-cigs or nicotine liquids.
Batteries, wire, cotton, nicotine, VG/PG, food flavoring. There is no way for them to stop it but they keep trying to find something to hook onto.
E-cigs are a gateway to people drawing attention to themselves.
Guarantee you more of those heroin addicts were prescribed legal painkillers, prior to their addiction, than smoked marijuana.
Bad parenting is a gateway to smoking and drugs and teenage pregnancy, so ban bad parents!
Ill take offense for my parents for that comment. MY decisions were a result of ME, not them.
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