Teen Vaping Increases Cigarette Use

[SmokeFree]

vaping News from Canada, as seen on US TV

Huh? That lie again!?

 

[ceeceeisme]

Being in Canada, I saw this on the news last night too. I think what researchers fail to realize is that with or without the existence of e-cigarettes, these are teens who are going to pick up cigarettes regardless. That is, if e-cigarettes had never come along, these are the next generation of smokers who will always be coming along as the new customers of BT. As long as cigarettes are a product that exists there will always be new customers and those customers are most likely to be younger than older.

 

[Izan]

Not Blowing Smoke, Vaping Works | American Council on Science and Health

"The widely disseminated fact that cigarettes are harmful is made even more apparent as the prevalence of teen smoking has dropped from 4.7 million in 2015 to 3.9 million in 2016. We had previously reported on this data provided by the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Results from that study indicated a drop across the board in most forms of smoking among teens. As Dr. Julianna LeMieux pointed out in her article, overall, what this means is, “vaping is being used for smoking cessation, or harm reduction, or as a rebellious experiment, but it is not leading kids into cigarettes, or something would be increasing.”"

Cheers
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[SmokeFree]

Re: teens ... are going to pick up cigarettes

Go figure! Tobacco is easy to get. AND "the system" wants to kill Vaping, to make it easier for everyone, including teens, to smoke tobacco.

 

[ExtremeDooty]

We need to make vaping Cool, like cigarettes were when I was a teen. Is there any way to add color or sparkles to the clouds we produce. I think that would impress the youngsters. I don't think they can do that with cigarettes. Just sayin'

 

[Coyote628]

Smoking is bad. Vaping is good because it helps smokers stay off cigarettes. Vaping for the sake of vaping is not really a good idea. I vape to stay away from cigarettes. I was very young when i started smoking. Hopelessly addicted before i was even 18 yrs old. Too hard headed at that time to admit it and continued to smoke. At 54 now, i have been off cigarrettes longer that i ever have in 42 years. But should we really encourage teen non-smokers to pick up vaping just because it looks cool? Or just because its safer than smoking?

 

[jfcooley]

Call me crazy, but I don't see many teens smoking round here. Guess they do, maybe I'm too old.

Both my boys are in highschool. I've asked them about kids smoking, vaping. They admit they know some of both but claim it's not considered cool. I dunno.

I'm a bad example, smoked and now vape. My family hated my smoking and have embraced my vaping. To them it's better for all the known reasons.

With both boys I've always been as transparent as a parent can be. I've had the sex talk, drug talk, and smoking/drinking talk. I'm not stupid, I know they're going to experiment at some point. All I can do is hope I've taught them well enough that's all it will be.

Smoking in teens. Where are the parents? If my kids pick up smoking it will be partially (if no all) my fault. The cigs didn't jump up and say smoke me. It will be my failure to address the dangers, peer pressure, and whatnot associated with it. Same goes for any other habit, including vaping.

Eh, just my 2¢

 

[stols001]

Teens smoking these days aren't doing it in public. They know. As far as my kiddo picking up smoking, he did tell me, which I appreciated. It did allow me to steer him to vaping, and as a smoker, I was most relieved when he took to the habit, and even more relieved that he quit completely. I doubt he would have done so without vaping, kicking a cig habit is DIFFICULT.

I like to think that my calm demeanor and lack of judgment helped (actually, with all the things he tried.) Even when I was arraigning him from jail, I wasn't feeling judgy, just hopeful things would work out okay (and they did). I was open with my kiddo about my younger years growing up and as a single mom, I dragged him to a lot of AA meetings. He knew about addiction and went ahead anyway, but it wasn't for lack of education. My education was in the hopes that once he started down that teen route (it was inevitable in some ways) that he could get out of it more quickly.

It's amazing how he started applying that knowledge once facing 15 years in jail, and then having to go through probation for 9 months (he didn't get jail time, but he didn't enjoy probation one bit. So, I'm glad I was open , and that I didn't get mad. It's hard not to get mad at one's kid in such situations, but for me it would've been the HEIGHT of hypocrisy.

I do think that what I did helped, overall, and I don't regret a single thing.

Anna

 

[Eskie]

Vaping, like cigarettes is regulated. No sales to minors. Minors still find ways to get access to both, as well as otherwise legal alcoholic beverages like beer (age 21 on that). No one is saying let's stop selling beer and cigarettes altogether because laws aren't enough to keep minors from getting to it. But for vaping it's OK to try and do that?

 

[ScottP]

Anyone that believes vaping causes teens to smoke should be FORCED to watch this:

E113 - NO GATEWAY | UK STUDY DISARMS YOUTH VAPING TO SMOKING MYTH

 

[Coyote628]

Despite our best intentions, kids are gonna do what they do. I was just thinking out loud that its probably not good for kids to

 

[smacuser]

Teens smoking these days aren't doing it in public. They know.

I got busted by my dad when he said an acquaintance mentioned they saw me walking down the highway whilst smoking.

But, otherwise, teen vaping has increased while teen smoking has gone down.