Electronic Cigarette Age Restrictions May Drive Teens to Traditional Cigarettes

[VictorC]

A recent study by Weill Cornell Medical College:

Electronic Cigarette Age Restrictions May Drive Teens to Traditional Cigarettes

 

[Rossum]

Wow, a US university actually published something that dissents from the politically correct, "Vapor products are bad!" view?

 

[retired1]

Considering the teen smoking numbers have been dropping steadily for years, I highly doubt prohibiting teens from purchasing e-cigarettes is going to change those numbers.

I would hazard a guess that most teens that attempt to purchase vaping products are doing more so for the "cool" factor than using them as an alternative to smoking.

 

[skoony]

This is confusing. I had thought teen use of tobacco products et al was around 15%.
This statement from the article is a little confusing.
"E-cigarettes are now more popular among adolescents than traditional cigarettes, with 13.4 percent opting for the former and 9.2 percent purchasing the latter,'
Percent of what? the total number of teens? That adds up to 22.7% of the total population.
Is this a national average? It seems high to me. Perhaps it means 13.4% prefer
e-cigarettes but 9.2% are actually buying tobacco.
I believe teen usage in Minnesota is in the high 13 percentile. This is still a historical
low. Does Michigan, where the study was done, have a higher teen usage rate?
It's rare in these parts to even see a teen smoking and, I have never seen a teen
vaping.

regards
Mike

 

[pennysmalls]

"One practical implication is that recently both New York City and Hawaii changed their legal purchasing age for both cigarettes and e-cigarettes to 21," Dr. Pesko said. "Without commenting on the merits of raising the cigarette minimum purchasing age to 21, results from this study suggest it would have been better from a public health standpoint to increase the purchasing age to 21 only for cigarettes, and not e-cigarettes."

It's funny to once again see these politicians and TC ignore the 500 pound gorilla in the room. These age restrictions have *never* worked and it will continue to not work with the these older kids (18-20) who will have even easier access than their younger peers. But that must be ok with TC, I guess, as long as they "tried" to do the right thing, right? Maybe it's all for appearances sake, I don't know.

 

[Steamix]

Kids have, are, and will be experimenting.
Rock'n Roll, smokes ( not just tobacco ), booze, anything.
Even more so when it's tagged with 'adults only' or 'not legal'.

And move on to other things or with their lives. Or become casual ( informed ) users.
Or get hooked. Too much of anything can turn problematic. And that covers not only substances of any type but also behaviour of any type. Internet, gambling,...feel free to add to that list.

These age restrictions have *never* worked...

So vaping is just one line item on the 'to try' list. And kids have always managed to get their hands on whatever they wanted to check out. The folks in office who have to decide on these rules were all kids too, so they know that only too well. Ask Mr. 'didn't inhale' ...

But that have little choice. As it's detrimental to health and their job is to keep the future worker bees healthy for the daily onslaught of chemicals on the job they have to make these age restrictions, lest they'll be accused of neglect....

 

[kakiser56]

This is confusing. I had thought teen use of tobacco products et al was around 15%.
This statement from the article is a little confusing.
"E-cigarettes are now more popular among adolescents than traditional cigarettes, with 13.4 percent opting for the former and 9.2 percent purchasing the latter,'
Percent of what? the total number of teens? That adds up to 22.7% of the total population.
Is this a national average? It seems high to me. Perhaps it means 13.4% prefer
e-cigarettes but 9.2% are actually buying tobacco.
I believe teen usage in Minnesota is in the high 13 percentile. This is still a historical
low. Does Michigan, where the study was done, have a higher teen usage rate?
It's rare in these parts to even see a teen smoking and, I have never seen a teen
vaping.

regards
Mike

I think what it means is that of the 15% who use tobacco products, 13.4% use electronic cigarettes, and 9.2% use cigarettes. I assume the remainder use something else.

 

[nicnik]

I think what it means is that of the 15% who use tobacco products, 13.4% use electronic cigarettes, and 9.2% use cigarettes. I assume the remainder use something else.

That can't be right. The other tobacco products aren't that popular. It's probably the overlap that accounts for it - users of both.

 

[kakiser56]

That can't be right. The other tobacco products aren't that popular. It's probably the overlap that accounts for it - users of both.

That makes more sense.

 

[Davey59]

Electronic Cigarette Age Restrictions May Drive Teens to Traditional Cigarettes

Well duh, that's why they are doing it. Can't have a new generation of tobacco tax payers missing money train.

 

[zoiDman]

I'm I Missing it?

Does Anyone have a Non Pay-to-View Link to the Actual Study?

 

[sofarsogood]

I've said over and over I wish ecigs had been around when I was a kid. Existing laws banning possession of tobacco are never enforced anywhere ever. The ecig ban will be enforced by police while they continue to ignore the tobacco ban. Mark my words.