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posted by CoolHand on Friday December 09 2016, @01:01PM   Printer-friendly
from the vape-em-if-you-got-em dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 09 2016, @03:23PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 09 2016, @03:23PM (#439184)

    Problem- there are various nicotine replacement regimens available to help people quit smoking (effectiveness of about 1%).

    How can you argue in good faith about the ill effects of nicotine and outlawing one form over another when these products are around?

    And comprehension fail- the issue isn't the effects of marijuana over nicotine, but the effects of legalization on use by teens.

    Speaking of sowing confusion.