New drivel about US youth gateway making the rounds today

[DrMA]

I'm not gonna link the drivel, but here's the expert reaction expert reaction to study on e-cigarette use and subsequent smoking in US teenagers | Science Media Centre

Young people and e-cigarettes: what we know so far

 

[pennysmalls]

I think the myth that ecigs lead to tobacco smoking is on it's last gasping breath before it completely sputters out and I think the ANTZ know it.

 

[Uma]

Curiosity is the gateway. Common core is fixing that "annoying" problem.
Until enough people stomp into the hearings and declare parental rights over political rights, the states will just keep taking more parental rights away. United is a cool word, but even cooler when utilized.

 

[jwbnyc]

What I read from it was a shift to demonizing nicotine.

They are having a hard time selling vapor as being as bad as smoke.

But Nicotine! Children!

 

[skoony]

there are at least three stories in Yahoo news today referring
to a new study saying first time underage e-cig users go on
to smoking.Boston Globe,Christian Science Monitor and
the LA times and there's more.
its popping up all over the net.
its the same study being referred about.
mike

 

[choochoogranny]

Front page news today for the Chattanooga Times Free Press. Article written by Lindsey Tanner of the Associated Press, "Teens' e-cigarette use linked with later smoking". Article concludes that more fed. funds needed for more research.....Ha!

Timed to be released with the news in England?

 

[philoshop]

Curiosity is the gateway. Common core is fixing that "annoying" problem.
Until enough people stomp into the hearings and declare parental rights over political rights, the states will just keep taking more parental rights away. United is a cool word, but even cooler when utilized.

I wish I could "like" this a few more times!

 

[choochoogranny]

More research needed = more funding = more job security.

 

[Opinionated]

there are at least three stories in Yahoo news today referring
to a new study saying first time underage e-cig users go on
to smoking.Boston Globe,Christian Science Monitor and
the LA times and there's more.
its popping up all over the net.
its the same study being referred about.
mike

Here is the thing most people don't realize. If you went and found the original source of that article it is most likely going to be a junk news organization (Similar to Christian Science Monitor)

these days, journalism is dead and copy-pasting is king. There is no research in journalism these days, one place comes out with an article and 100 others copy it. At one point finding the original article that they all copied their info from is difficult, but that is all news organizations do these days.. in other words, its not news they are spouting. Its opinions.. and what opinion they are quoting is going to be the most shocking one they can find in order to get more hits..

truth is dead in journalism... that is a fact. What is important is shock and awe for the most hits they can get.. truth be damned.

ETA:

The fact is, e-cigarrettes hurt major industries. The tobacco industry, the pharmecutical industry, the health-care industry to name just a few. These huge industries aren't happy that they cannot sell us asthma medications and more if we quit, they aren't keeping us addicted for life to the tune of 2-3 hundred dollars a month, they aren't happy about an awful lot of things - the taxes the government gets off us and more.

People are quitting.. people like me who smoked for 30 years found a way out (and without spending hundreds if not thousands of dollars on dangerous stop-smoking drugs whose side effects include things like suicide) - it looses some serious funds for many people..

they (large industry) have tons of money and governmental pull to make it as difficult as possible for us in order to get our money back somehow. They are who we are fighting, and the journalists are not on our side.. not by a long-shot. They got lazy long ago and don't care about what is true or even what is right.. they just copy paste and try to get hits...

we are alone, with many people against us actually quitting.

 

[Katya]

What I read from it was a shift to demonizing nicotine.

They are having a hard time selling vapor as being as bad as smoke.

But Nicotine! Children!

They are desperate. We're back to "tutti-frutti" and "save the children" arguments.

While in England:

E-cigarettes are 95 percent less harmful than tobacco -UK study | E-Cigarette Forum

"It [the study] also contradicts the finding of another study by researchers from the University of Southern California which said this week that U.S. teens who tried electronic cigarettes might be more than twice as likely to move on to smoking conventional cigarettes as those who have never tried the devices."