CDC Report: E-Cigarette Use By Kids Doubled In The Last Year

[GypsySyx]

This may belong in another forum...not sure as I'm relatively new here but...

Here we go. Today, the CDC chimes in...

http:// www. sfgate. com/technology/businessinsider/article/CDC-Report-E-Cigarette-Use-By-Kids-Doubled-In-4790394.php

CDC Report: E-Cigarette Use By Kids Doubled In The Last Year - SFGate[/url]

Press release: http:// www. cdc. gov/media/releases/2013/p0905-ecigarette-use.html

CDC Online Newsroom | Press Release | E-cigarette use more than doubles among U.S. middle and high school students from 2011-2012

.. the percentage of high school students who reported ever using an e-cigarette rose from 4.7 percent in 2011 to 10.0 percent in 2012. In the same time period, high school students using e-cigarettes within the past 30 days rose from 1.5 percent to 2.8 percent. Use also doubled among middle school students. Altogether, in 2012 more than 1.78 million middle and high school students nationwide had tried e-cigarettes.

Kids with a lotta disposable income and little parental attention? Weird world.

 

[kindnugs]

I saw this on the elevator ride to my floor at work today. Fancy building has a tv in the elevators. I was kind of floored by this. All the more reason for the fed to ban/regulate them.

 

[jefsview]

And it's here already: Media and General News

thread locking in...3....2.............1

 

[crxess]

Or said they have to be with the in crowd.

Personally I feel the state of this country - Thank you Government has more to do with child issues than anything.
Most families have 2 working parents just to make ends meet. Not much time for properly raising the children.

Old enough to remember what Family used to mean.

No doubt e-cigs will see a continually escalating Negative media surge over the next few weeks. FDA has to Defend making them another Sin Tax item.

 

[JulesXsmokr]

So what are the kids supposedly getting out of their new little e- cigs.
It's a lot of money to spend just to be with the in crowd, trying doesn't mean being dependent on it.- or the nicotine it may have in it.
News Glamorous headlines brought to you by the Big tobacco and Big Pharmas across this great globe of ours. Remember - it's our's (B.T. and B.P.) not yours. (the rest of us)..
We need to vape on and mighty and let everyone know what we do and why we do it.. We need to spam the word...

 

[soba1]

I heard them bring that story up on the news as I was driving home.
What a bunch of horse puckey.
For I know my sons probably did they may have stole my cigarettes and started experimenting.
So maybe the increase in that is due to the increase in their parents vaping, and they are experimenting with that.
Man the controllers are working overtime

 

[v1k1ng1001]

OMG!!!...so teens are vaping instead of smoking???...OMG!!!

How is this not a good thing? (In spite of how it is and will continue to be spun)

The CDC release suggests unsubstantiated, and I would argue hysterical, inferences.

For example, they claim that there is no scientific evidence that e-cigs "promote successful long-term quitting"--presumably because vaping is a relatively new phenomenon that no one has been able to study over the long term. Nonetheless, they conjecture that e-cigarettes are a gateway to smoking--with absolutely no scientific evidence.

Based on these specious inferences we are asked to accept the conclusion: “These findings reinforce why the FDA intends to expand its authority over all tobacco products and establish a comprehensive and appropriate regulatory framework to reduce disease and death from tobacco use.”

This is logicide.

 

[kittybite]

CDC reports aside, I used to buy my own cigs at 7-Eleven when I was 14 (25 years ago--yeesh I'm old)! And I got my hands on alcohol and some other controlled (but natural) substance. We can regulate the crap out of e-cigs, but I can assure you kids will still get their hands on them. Just my 2 cents!

 

[jimmyh]

kittybite is right, the government tried getting rid of alcohol, how did that work out? Remember the so call "war on drugs", losing that too. They can ban e-cigs tomorrow, it just means you will pay more for equipment. They can't stop it.

 

[Zealous]

I didn't read this who thread so I'll edit if I need to. But I will just say that I tried a cigarette when I was in junior high & started smoking in high school. So then these age groups trying vaping isn't really all that surprising to me. These age groups are going to experiment. Some will do it more than others but it's inevitable. I have said it before & I'll say it again, if/ one or both of my children get to a point where they are going to experiment with tobacco/nicotine & hope they DO choose to try it vaping rather than smoking. And I hope they believe the hype about smoking, or at least remember what they hated about it when I did it so they don't ever think about doing it themselves. But that's just me.

 

[retired1]

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