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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: 2) by q.kontinuum on Friday December 09 2016, @03:14PM
If that guy starts fighting vaping, he can happily go and snuff it [youtube.com] for all I care. (Trigger warning: the linked video is a snuff video. Don't watch if you can't take it.)
I was into snuff when I was 13 because I wasn't aware of the negative health-impact. Recently my son started to show interest in smoking, and I checked on wikipedia to find some good arguments against it, and to prove that the claimed positive effects of smokers are totally moot. Bad luck. After reading this part [wikipedia.org] and finding only little actual risks in the following section (most risks are about burning tobacco, mentioning that it is not actually understood how relevant the part of the nicotine itself is) I went and bought myself a new pack of snuff, first time for > 20 years. Not sure if I'd like to start vaping; probably not as long as THC-oils are illegal where I live. I prefer the freeing effect of menthol snuff in my nose.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 09 2016, @03:55PM
snuff video
Until I read the second sentence of the second paragraph, I sincerely thought you were talking about watching videos where others die. The concept was rather disturbing, although there are such people out there with that pathology. Perhaps you should consider possible double entendres before hitting submit? ;) (Or maybe I should consider changing my preformed concepts. Or both.)
(Score: 2) by q.kontinuum on Friday December 09 2016, @04:18PM
Or you try to adjust your pun-sensor :-) The misconception was intended. And for those to anxious to try: The video is really actually about sniffing snuff tobacco.
BTW: Just to clarify: Of course I do not endorse my son to use nicotine, or any other drugs for that matter. I advise him most clearly against it and tell him to wait at least until his bodily development is complete, and afterwards to use his brain to make decisions and to get all relevant information first. However, if he really wants to I would go to any length to tell him that snuff tobacco or vape is no less cool than cigarettes.
(Although I never saw what was so cool about burning herbs and inhale the smoke to attract a very smelly body-odour, yellow teeth, worse sexual performance (even though that might not matter as much any more due to the unavoidable smelly breath), potential cancer, ...)
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