FDA issues more misleading fear mongering information about youth tobacco use

[Bill Godshall]

More Youth Use tobacco Than You May Think
More Youth Use Tobacco Than You May Think

Although this new propaganda from FDA doesn't mention the "deeming" regulation, it appears designed to boost public support for the agency to propose/approve the "deeming" regulation (which could/would decimate the e-cigarette industry).

And of course, FDA's new propaganda misleads readers to believe that tobacco use is increasing among youth (while actual youth tobacco use continues to decline) and to believe that all tobacco products are as hazardous as cigarettes.

 

[phil shiffley]

Sometimes my government really urinates on any idea that may even begin to resemble common sense. It makes me wonder who the FDA works for. (food and DRUG administration)....hmmm. Digital smokes work. (I say that only because I smoked for 27 years, tried everything else, and quit using e-cigarettes. I have absolutely no proof or case studies to back up my claim of course, since drug companies didn't spend 6.84 million to develop these. And the MY government didn't spend 68.4 Billion retesting.)

Folks, let me let you in on some other dangers you (or the FDA) may not ave considered;
1. Chewing on a straw to quit smoking could possibly just maybe cause toe nail cancer. (no one has proven otherwise.)
2. Chewing on a pen could lead to death. This one is true. You could choke on the cap. You could sit your pen down in an e-coli infected spot and put it into your mouth.
3. Using the patch leads to blindness and loss of limbs. Since it doesn't address the oral fixation, you might have to suck on hard candies, get diabetes, lose your sight and have your feat amputated. (I am a diabetic... I can make jokes.)
4. No one knows what affect texting will have on the evolution of our hands in 4000 years.
5. My teenagers call my ego twist with a vivi nova my hooka toker, and think I look like an imbecile.

Read 5 again. I don't believe youth of today will think e-cigarettes are cool... Beer is cheaper.

You are right about fear mongering, all I can do is apologize for my government... I will try to reign them in, in the future.

 

[Bill Godshall]

Once again, the FDA protects cigarette markets and threatens public health under the guise of protecting children.

FDA recommends telling youth to "say no" to tobacco, but not to inform them that cigarette smoking is far more hazardous than use of smokefree tobacco products.
Eight Tips for Talking with Youth about Tobacco

 

[Bill Godshall]

FDA's new recommendations at
Eight Tips for Talking with Youth about Tobacco
are very similar to Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No" and the Partnership for a Drug-Free America's "Talk to Your Kids, They'll Listen" propaganda campaigns against illegal drugs and users.

Back in the early 1990s I publicly exposed and criticized the Partnership for a Drug-Free America (whose most famous ad was "This is your brain on drugs" showing a egg frying in a pan) for their hypocrisy of receiving funding from cigarette and alcohol companies to oppose illegal drug use.

That prompted the abstinence-only prohibitionist organization to drop all alcohol and cigarette industry funding, and to seek funding from drug companies (which has bankrolled them ever since). Nothing like a drug industry funded organization demonizing illegal drug use and users (while ignoring the many problems caused by excessive use of legal drugs).

Around the same time drug companies began funding the Partnership for a Drug-Free America, RWJF and drug companies also began funding (with tens of milions of dollars) abstinence-only anti-tobacco extremists (CTFK, AMA, ACS, AHA, ALA) to demonize all tobacco products and users, while hawking drug industry smoking cessation products.

 

[Hulamoon]

And the "joke" if such there is, is that kids aren't interested in cigarettes much at all nowadays, because illegal drugs, and legal head shops are a darn sight cheaper and a darn sight cooler than doing what pop and grand pop does "for a fix".