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posted by janrinok on Saturday November 07 2015, @01:17AM   Printer-friendly
from the pufff-eeeergh-thas-good-shit dept.

More than 40 states have banned the sale of electronic cigarettes to minors, but Michael Greenwood reports at the Yale School of Medicine that a study indicates that these measures have an unintended and dangerous consequence: increasing adolescents' use of conventional cigarettes. "Conventional cigarette use has been falling somewhat steadily among this age group since the start of the 21st century. This paper shows that bans on e-cigarette sales to minors appear to have slowed this decline by about 70 percent in the states that implemented them," says Abigail Friedman. "In other words, as a result of these bans, more teenagers are using conventional cigarettes than otherwise would have done so." Guided by her findings and the fact that habitual use of conventional cigarettes first spikes at age 16, Friedman suggests that bans on e-cigarette sales may be more effective in reducing teenage smoking if they were limited to those under 16, rather than those under 18.

This middle ground solution may provide a way to reduce teen smoking while the long-term effects of vaping, still largely unknown, are being determined. "Policy makers have been assuming that banning e-cigarette sales to minors will improve public health. This paper's finding, that these bans increase conventional cigarette smoking among teens, suggests that we may need to rethink this conclusion."


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  • (Score: 2) by Snotnose on Saturday November 07 2015, @04:12AM

    by Snotnose (1623) on Saturday November 07 2015, @04:12AM (#259815)

    2) E-cigs came along and because they were assumed to be harmless, sucked a lot of teens into the nicotine addiction that had been dwindling steadily since the mid 90s.

    More like, ecigs came along and were much easier for teens to get.

    I remember back in my high school days, mid '70s, the hardest drug to get was alcohol. Pot, quaaludes, bennies, LSD, coke? If you had the cash you could easily get it. Beer/wine/any other alcohol? Didn't matter how much money you had, the problem was finding someone to buy it for you.

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  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Saturday November 07 2015, @04:50AM

    by frojack (1554) on Saturday November 07 2015, @04:50AM (#259820) Journal

    More like, ecigs came along and were much easier for teens to get.

    Well, yeah, goes without saying, since they were not illegal.

    But still, the smoking was on the decline. Why did that turn around, just because of vaping?

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