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The U.S. surgeon general has warned against surging e-cigarette use among teenagers, calling it a "major public health concern" in a new report:
The U.S. surgeon general is calling e-cigarettes an emerging public health threat to the nation's youth. In a report being released Thursday, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy acknowledged a need for more research into the health effects of "vaping," but said e-cigarettes aren't harmless and too many teens are using them. "My concern is e-cigarettes have the potential to create a whole new generation of kids who are addicted to nicotine," Murthy told The Associated Press. "If that leads to the use of other tobacco-related products, then we are going to be moving backward instead of forward."
[...] Federal figures show that last year, 16 percent of high school students reported at least some use of e-cigarettes - even some who say they've never smoked a conventional cigarette. While not all contain nicotine, Murthy's report says e-cigarettes are the most commonly used tobacco-related product among youth. Nicotine is bad for a developing brain no matter how it's exposed, Murthy said. "Your kids are not an experiment," he says in a public service announcement being released with the report.
It's already illegal to sell e-cigarettes to minors. Earlier this year, the Food and Drug Administration issued new rules that, for the first time, will require makers of nicotine-emitting devices to begin submitting their ingredients for regulators to review.
Also at USA Today, NYT, The Hill, and The Washington Post.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 09 2016, @02:49PM
Does not apply to minors.
Apparently you missed that teens still smoke. If tobacco were outlawed, but vaping legal, how would the health effect compare to having tobacco legal and vaping outlawed?
Wait, we already know the answer: The United Nations’ World Health Organization projects that a billion people will die prematurely from smoking this century.
Amount of deaths connected to vaping: 0.
I guess you missed that part.
No, I'm quite aware of it. But so does caffeine
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2699625/ [nih.gov]
Shall we outlaw coffee, soda, and chocolate as well?
I don't want my kids doing either of those.
Which is between you and your children.
However when you literally condemning a billion people to death for sake of your children, you've moved over from busybody to tyrant.
(Score: 2) by weeds on Friday December 09 2016, @03:24PM
However when you literally condemning a billion people to death...
Literally? Really? Trying to stop kids from vaping nicotine is going to kill a billion people?
Since coffee, soda, and chocolate already can have a negative effect on the developing brain, let's add another one.
Get money out of politics! [mayday.us]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 09 2016, @03:38PM
How disingenuous of you.
If the regulations were only to ban sale to minors (which has already happened at the state level, so completely unnecessary), there wouldn't be any argument except for why is this needed at the federal level?
But that's not what the regulations say. You're even quoting the other parts of the regulations, so you should really know better.
So yes, a billion deaths under the smokescreen of saving your children.
Best of luck with your caffeine ban. I'm sure you'll be writing your congressman short to get this enacted.
(Score: 2) by weeds on Friday December 09 2016, @04:09PM
Why is what needed at the federal level? Did he say, "I'm going to start passing federal laws."? No, the article says,
Murthy's report calls on parents and health workers to make concerns about e-cigarettes clear to young people. He said local officials should take action, too, such as including e-cigarettes in indoor smoke-free policies.
Is there something wrong with this?
We are all pissed off because the surgeon general said that vaping nicotine is not a good idea for young people and they should know the dangers?
Did I suggest a caffeine ban? That wasn't very bright of me. Oh wait. I didn't.
Get money out of politics! [mayday.us]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 09 2016, @04:02PM
I'm sure I don't have to point out the absurdity and disingenuousness of comparing projected deaths over the next century to deaths seen over the past couple years. 0 deaths over the past couple years does not mean it'll stay 0 over the course of 100 years.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 09 2016, @04:12PM
Except if you had bothered to do any research, you'd see vaping has been around since the early 2000s. Still no deaths.
Shall we wait 100 years before deciding what to do then?