CDC's Communications are Likely Making this Outbreak Much Worse
A new
survey released yesterday by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago found that the public believes that
vaping nicotine-based e-liquids is much more harmful than
vaping THC e-liquids.
While 54% of the public believes that
vaping nicotine is very harmful, only 38% believe that vaping THC is very harmful. And while just 16% of the public does not believe that nicotine vapes are harmful, an amazing one-third (33%) of the public does not believe that vaping marijuana carries any risk.
These data are shocking in light of the fact that we are a good two months into an outbreak of severe respiratory failure and death, affecting more than 1,000 people, in which the overwhelming majority of cases vaped THC oils and contaminated, bootleg THC vape cartridges have been clearly tied to the outbreak, while there is currently no evidence that nicotine vapes are involved at all.
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