ABC News: 'Alarmist' vaping bans lack nuance, may do more harm than good

[LoveVanilla]

'Alarmist' vaping bans lack nuance, may do more harm than good
Traditional cigarettes still kill about 10,000 times as many people annually.

...alarmist, short-circuiting careful analysis of the full range of evidence...

...failing to distinguish between nicotine and THC products, between adult and youth smokers, between retail and black market devices.

...cracking down on e-cigarettes, while allowing traditional cigarettes to remain on the market, is the opposite of protecting public health, the authors wrote.

Blanket bans may push e-cigarette smokers to the black market or back to smoking traditional cigarettes.

In comparison to the harms caused by e-cigarettes, traditional cigarettes are responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year in the United States, according to the CDC.

Put more simply, that's 10,000 times the number of vaping deaths logged in the current lung injury outbreak.

2018 report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, which found that completely substituting vaping nicotine for traditional cigarettes reduced smokers' exposure to "numerous toxicants and carcinogens."

"across a range of studies and outcomes, e-cigarettes appear to pose less risk to an individual than combustible tobacco cigarettes."

Instead of blanket bans on vaping, age-tailored interventions, like restricting sales of both vaping products and traditional cigarettes to adults 21 years old and older, and prohibiting predatory marketing to youth, "would be a tremendous step forward," according to Fairchild.

"Here we have the most deadly product that we can sell to human beings," she said of traditional cigarettes, "and we allow them to buy it when they are still in high school."

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[bobwho77]

Nice to see something (relatively) rational from a MSM outlet.

 

[Jman8]

In comparison to the harms caused by e-cigarettes, traditional cigarettes are responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year in the United States, according to the CDC.

Well, if the CDC says it's true....

Still love that no one (reading this) can source, or establish the veracity, of the claim that cigarettes are responsible for 480,000 deaths annually.

Vapers going to contend the heck out of any deaths attributed to vaping (nicotine), but please, let's continue to support the CDC's (highly questionable) claim that cigarette smoking is responsible for deaths.

Literally, all points of data on the "480,000 deaths" link (to CDC) are debatable. If it were saying the EXACT SAME THINGS with regards to vaping, we'd scrutinize the heck out of each claim. But with regards to smoking, some of us accept it as indisputable fact.

Gotta suck being inconsistent with one's rhetoric and ability to reason.