http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/e-cigarette-use-triples-among-middle-and-high-school-students-study-says/2015/04/16/16632674-e3bd-11e4-81ea-0649268f729e_story.html
This was on the front page of the Washington post today. Two things stuck out. Some highschools are treating ecigs as drug paraphernalia. And the whole ecig TV marketing Marlboro man boogie man. I've only ever seen in store ads in 7-11 for those ....ty njoy and blu cigs likes. Arguably not targeting kids. Only ever seen TV ads for blu with Stephen dorf and jenny McCarthy which yes are clearly trying pathetically to make it look cool and link to a celebrity... Granted a b list celebrity but still. So are we basically screwed on the TV ad accusations because big tobacco f'd up and ran two ....ty TV ads?
This part is worth repeating
“The CDC should really be jumping for joy at the fact that smoking rates are declining. This is a huge success,” said Michael Siegel, a professor and tobacco-control specialist at Boston University’s School of Public Health. “Instead, they are using this as another opportunity to demonize e-cigarettes.”
Siegel said he agrees that minors shouldn’t have access to any tobacco product. But he said the CDC numbers suggest that rather than serving as a gateway to cigarette smoking, e-cigarettes actually might be diverting teens from traditional cigarettes, which still account for nearly half a million tobacco-related deaths in the United States each year.