So Your Teenager Is Vaping E-Cigarettes – Should You Worry? | IFLScience
Lots of good information and advice in this article. Here are a few snippets:
"Other features, like flavors can also support use in all age groups."
"The best evidence to date shows that using e-cigarettes is very dramatically less dangerous than cigarette smoking."
"If vaping has been acting largely as a gateway to cigarettes, one would expect to see more cigarette smoking with the rise in vaping. This has not happened. Smoking has continued to decline."
"If you show more concern about vaping than smoking or if you downplay the deadly risks of smoking, you encourage young people to switch to cigarettes."
"If you are faced with committed teenage smokers (who are probably also using other prohibited substances like drugs or alcohol), perhaps the best you can do is foster switching to e-cigarettes."
"Telling a teenager that vaping is just as bad for you as smoking or that e-cigs are worse than tobacco cigarettes could push them toward cigarettes and is not justified. It makes more sense to tell a young person that it is much better for their health if they stay away from tobacco cigarettes or cigarette-like tobacco cigars completely.
If you have teenagers who already both smoke and vape, encourage that they work to avoid cigarettes completely, and vaping could help them do so."
Lots of good information and advice in this article. Here are a few snippets:
"Other features, like flavors can also support use in all age groups."
"The best evidence to date shows that using e-cigarettes is very dramatically less dangerous than cigarette smoking."
"If vaping has been acting largely as a gateway to cigarettes, one would expect to see more cigarette smoking with the rise in vaping. This has not happened. Smoking has continued to decline."
"If you show more concern about vaping than smoking or if you downplay the deadly risks of smoking, you encourage young people to switch to cigarettes."
"If you are faced with committed teenage smokers (who are probably also using other prohibited substances like drugs or alcohol), perhaps the best you can do is foster switching to e-cigarettes."
"Telling a teenager that vaping is just as bad for you as smoking or that e-cigs are worse than tobacco cigarettes could push them toward cigarettes and is not justified. It makes more sense to tell a young person that it is much better for their health if they stay away from tobacco cigarettes or cigarette-like tobacco cigars completely.
If you have teenagers who already both smoke and vape, encourage that they work to avoid cigarettes completely, and vaping could help them do so."
