Survey finds teens trending toward e-cigarettes - annual Monitoring the Future survey

[cafecraig]

Full article:

Survey finds teens trending toward e-cigarettes - SFGate

"Nearly 9 percent of 8th graders said they had used an e-cigarette in the previous month, while just 4 percent reported smoking a traditional cigarette, said the report being released Tuesday by the National Institutes of Health."

"The CDC reported last week that 10 states permit the sale of e-cigarettes to minors."

"Researchers were surprised at how many 8th, 10th and 12th graders reported using electronic cigarettes this year, even as regular smoking by teens dropped to new lows.... Regular smoking continued inching down, to 7 percent of 10th graders and 14 percent of 12th graders..... 'I worry that the tremendous progress that we've made over the last almost two decades in smoking could be reversed on us by the introduction of e-cigarettes,' said University of Michigan professor Lloyd Johnston."

 

[Lessifer]

Here are the key points to that article, as I see them:

"The survey didn't ask about repeat use, or if teens were just experimenting with something new."
and
"They must think that e-cigarettes are fundamentally different" because they are.

Also, the "gateway" argument has never held water. There is absolutely no evidence, at all, that vaping leads to smoking, and vaping is not smoking.

 

[Nermal]

They're saying vaping results in lower rates of beginning smokers. That's what they are saying; they just don't know they're saying that.

 

[sofarsogood]

The survey didn't ask how many are regular users and how many of those smoked cigarettes previously and might be using ecigs to escape tobacco. That would probably show ecigs are steering kids away from tobacco, something the control freaks don't want to find out.

When I was smoking I would not have opposed banning the sale of rolled cigarettes. Make smokers roll their own. The anti smoking folks have been corrupted by the money. They really don't want to stop smoking they just want to "control" it.

 

[Zebra Puzzle]

"They must think that e-cigarettes are fundamentally different - he said"

It's funny how kids are fundamentally smarter than university professor.

 

[uab9253]

Actually talking about how e-cigs are setting back smoking reduction efforts! That's a special kind of stupid right there.....

 

[kakiser56]

Same study, but as reported in the NY Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/17/s...cigarette-study.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0
They did notice that while use of e-cigs have gone up, traditional cig use has declined, meaning the argument of gateway is wrong.

 

[skoony]

its my opinion all these studies are bogus.
the numbers don't add up.
the study the other day said 18% of the respondents had
tried an ecig. another study said smoking rates down for teens
well below the 18% mark.
if any thing at all is happening they are probably referring to those
party hookah's. brightly colored fruit flavored cigalikes with 0 nic
that are all the rage at the teeny parties.
that means whoever is supplying them with liquor is supplying
the party hookah's.

regards
ike

 

[vapero]

I think this is good...
every year there where a lot of kids starting to smoke cigarettes now they are starting to vape instead. in the near future there will be a lot of non-smoker kids that start using nicotine for the first time via vaping, that is just the way it is; non drinking kids will start drinking, non drug users will start using etc.... but as far as I know I would prefer for the kids to start vaping instead of smoking.

we humans like to try things and nicotine is no exception. we just found a better alternative to do it