Electronic cigarettes are not a big hit with teens (excellent article in PA)

[Bill Godshall]

This headline and article (which was originally about PA Sen. Solobay's bill to ban e-cig sales to minors) ran across the top of the front page of the Pittsburgh Tribune Review (accompanied by a photo of vape Inn co-owner Gabrielle Williams vaping). It would be helpful to generate similar news stories elsewhere.

Electronic cigarettes are not a big hit with teens
Electronic cigarettes are not a big hit with teens | TribLIVE


Although my comment didn't get printed about CDC misrepresenting its survey data finding that teen smokers were 20 times more likely than nonsmokers to have reported using an e-cig, the reporter included several of my comments.

Bill Godshall of Monroeville, a longtime anti-smoking activist who runs SmokeFree Pennsylvania and supports the bill, said those figures are not as troubling as they sound if it means teen smokers illegally obtaining cigarettes are opting for e-cigs instead.

“If teens, like adult smokers, are switching to e-cigarettes,” he said, “that's not a public health problem; that's a public health solution.”

Godshall said some anti-smoking advocates take the issue too far by trying to ban the use of e-cigs by adults.

“There's no evidence these products are being marketed to kids,” he said. “The reality is these products have helped millions of smokers quit.”

 

[Bill Godshall]

This may be the first article about e-cigs and youth that doesn't even mention FDA, CTFK, ACS, AHA, ALA, and its only reference to CDC's survey is rebutted by my comments.

 

[Uma]

Wonderful newsworthy article! Thumbs up for Megan & Bill both. Thanks for cutting to the Chase.

 

[stauglocal]

Great article! Thanks Bill for everything you do for our community.