Ecigs are not tobacco products - new Sullum commentary

[DrMA]

«If anything, these data suggest that e-cigarettes are [URL='http://reason.com/archives/2014/12/22/are-e-cigarettes-displacing-the-real-thi']replacing the real thing. As one tobacco researcher told The New York Times, "They're not a gateway in, and they might be accelerating the gateway out." That cannot be anything but good news from a public health perspective, given the huge difference in risk between vaping and smoking.»[/URL]

E-Cigarettes Are Not Tobacco Products - Reason.com

 

[Semiretired]

Great article - Thanks.

 

[TyPie]

Very, very good article, and I think very, very good news.
Again, compared to all the trash writing and reporting out there, too much common sense, intelligence and rational thought in one article about vaping that I can take in one sitting......I'm feeling faint........

 

[OCD]

Great article, that past-month cigarette smoking number of 9.2% I had read recently in another article is the first time in ever that teen smoking numbers have been in the single digit range.

If the tools of this world really want to do something 'for the children' they need to get behind the one thing that has been able to effect this kind of change. Doing anything else is encouraging them to become the next generation of tobacco smokers.

 

[CarolT]

Why are they letting hookah off the hook? Is that another form of "not tobacco" in their eyes? From the MMWR:
Estimated no. of users - Middle vs High School
e-cigs 450,000 to 2,010,000 = 4.47 times increase between Middle School and High School
hookah 280,000 to 1,380,000 = 4.929
cigs 290,000 vs 1,370,000 = 4.724

any 910,000 vs 3,720,000 = 4.088 times

 

[this is my name]

I think some of these people would be doing themselves a favor to visit a middle school science class so they may learn the difference between vapor and smoke. And perhaps the difference between solid tobacco stuffs and liquid e juice stuffs...

Or was that taught in elementary?

 

[kkay59]

Thank you. This article was awesome. I am going to post a news story that was done locally. This is what people see and hear, for the most part. (not great stories like the one you posted)