Is E-cigarette Legislation Backfiring?

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Is E-cigarette Legislation Backfiring?
31st March 2016

Writing in the Winston Salem Journal earlier this month, journalist Richard Craver opens his article regarding this, with the words, “A second Ivy League study has found a connection between higher age requirements for purchasing electronic cigarettes and increased use of traditional cigarettes by youths.” Seems the gateway theory that vaping leads to smoking is very much NOT the case, and depriving teenagers that already smoke of a viable, less harmful alternative is actually doing more harm. Two studies have now found that banning under 18’s from purchasing e-cigarettes has seen an increase in youth smoking. Craver writes, “The Weill Cornell study reviewed… READ MORE
 
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