CNN segment on e-cigarettes today ... 9/28

[Petrodus]

Just watched a short e-cigarette segment on CNN

2 Million Middle School students have tried e-cigarettes
20% of middle school kids who only use e-cigs will probably go on to smoke cigarettes.

E-cigarettes are marketed to kids

E-cigarette batteries are a safety concern because some have exploded causing injuries

Nicotine filled vapor ... and those around an e-smoker may be inhaling nicotine.
Implied non-smokers who vape will be addicted to nicotine.

Smokers who vape are likely not to quit and return to smoking cigarettes.

Of course they threw in the FDA garbage about harmful ingredients
and mentioned the CDC slanted propaganda.

Anyone else see the segment ??

 

[2coils]

Just watched a short e-cigarette segment on CNN

2 Million Middle School students have tried e-cigarettes
20% of middle school kids who only use e-cigs will probably go on to smoke cigarettes.

E-cigarettes are marketed to kids

E-cigarette batteries are a safety concern because some have exploded causing injuries

Nicotine filled vapor ... and those around an e-smoker may be inhaling nicotine.
Implied non-smokers who vape will be addicted to nicotine.

Smokers who vape are likely not to quit and return to smoking cigarettes.

Of course they threw in the FDA garbage about harmful ingredients
and mentioned the CDC slanted propaganda.

Anyone else see the segment ??

Dont think I want to after reading your play by play

 

[shan57]

I saw it. After getting P*$$ed, went for a walk. So much BS, no facts. Sanjay Gupta needs to hear the other side; after all, he changed his opinion on medical ........ after doing his own research. Will invite him to check out CASAA and ECF.

 

[peep531]

I saw it too, it thoroughly chaps me that they refer to e-cigarettes as a "tobacco product". Did he not even bother to ask the e-cig user he sat next to about the product and his experience?? Would pat him on the back and congratulate him if he were using a nicotine patch or nicotine gum?

Instead of interviewing successful users and real medical doctors on the benefits of e-cigarettes and the fact that there is such a thing as 0 nicotine levels he brings in a talking head from the CDC who has not even looked into legitimate research. I'm going to send him my first pet scan showing spots in my lungs, and my last pet scan showing that one spot has disappeared.
peep

 

[Petrodus]

Those opposed to e-cigarettes and their paid shills ...
couldn't give a GD about the truth.

 

[Spazmelda]

Did they actually say 20% who try a likely to go on to smoking cigarettes?! What on earth are they basing that on?

 

[Ranic85]

The Zombie Apocalypse is here.

 

[_Lee]

Are you seriously asking the media to back up their claims with data, legitimate research, scientific fact and evidence?

Silly rabbit...

 

[Vocalek]

Did they actually say 20% who try a likely to go on to smoking cigarettes?! What on earth are they basing that on?

That's exactly what I would like to know. Considering the fact that smoking initiation rates are at an all time low (4.8% females, 4.7% males), with the difference between 2009 rates and 2012 rates statistically significant to the 0.5 level, that is not going to happen. Results from the 2012 NSDUH: Summary of National Findings, SAMHSA, CBHSQ

Apparently Gupta is a good little parrot, except for when he gets the urge to embellish the propaganda with his own imaginary facts.

 

[Spazmelda]

Are you seriously asking the media to back up their claims with data, legitimate research, scientific fact and evidence?

Silly rabbit...

Well, no, but this is way beyond what we usually see. Usually things are twisted with weasel words (maybe, could, possibly). If they said, flat out, that 20% of kids who try an electronic cigarette will 'graduate' to smoking then they are pulling numbers out of orifices.

 

[Spazmelda]

I found this posted on YouTube posted on sept 12, but it doesn't appear to be the same thing the op is talking about. Here gupta seems fairly agnostic about electronic cigarettes.

CNN Dr. Sanjay Gupta talks about electronic cigarettes - YouTube

 

[Petrodus]

I found this posted on YouTube posted on sept 12, but it doesn't appear to be the same thing the op is talking about. Here gupta seems fairly agnostic about electronic cigarettes.

CNN Dr. Sanjay Gupta talks about electronic cigarettes - YouTube

Not bad ... (not a vid of the 9/28 segment)

I think its against some kind of Federal Law to include
anyone who vapes ... in segments on the topic of e-cigarettes.
Wouldn't be "fair and balanced" ... don't ya know.

 

[Uma]

I found this posted on YouTube posted on sept 12, but it doesn't appear to be the same thing the op is talking about. Here gupta seems fairly agnostic about electronic cigarettes.

CNN Dr. Sanjay Gupta talks about electronic cigarettes - YouTube

This one was upbeat, careful, excited, careful, ... Not bad overall!
Be sure to leave some study links and whatnot for them to research. The viewers would appreciate it too I'm sure.

 

[Uma]

While at YouTube, I ran across several more Doctors talking positive about eCigs.
This guy has part 1 and a part 2. Dr. David Baron.
He somehow keeps mentioning just one brand, but that's okay. He knows it, and is comfortable talking about it, so who am I to judge.
Electronic Cigarette - Dr. David Baron, M.D. - PART 1/2 - YouTube

He is an M.D. ... UCLA Santa Monica chief of staff

 

[Petrodus]

I remember watching that vid a couple years ago (was uploaded in 2009)
Great Video !

 

[Uma]

I know, right. I love how he reminds parents and nosy bodies and dumb people to educate the kids about it being a quit smoke tool.