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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: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 09 2016, @03:54PM
The question is not whether or not vaping is better or worse than smoking 'regular' cigarettes. The question is whether or not vaping is bad for you.
Similarly, getting kneecapped is less bad than getting hit by a train, but that doesn't mean we should applaud kneecappers...
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday December 09 2016, @06:55PM
Exactly.
I'm one of those weird people who thinks that putting anything else than fresh in your lungs should be limited to a minimum (what do I know, i've only got a dozen firemen as neighbors).
IF you absolutely have to suck on some stuff to generate smoke, sure, vaping is better than tobacco. But every measurement of vaping products does show some heavy stuff that can't be good for you. So I'd prefer if I did enjoy less growth in insurance premiums, courtesy of reduced lung issues from the previous decline in smoking.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by tibman on Friday December 09 2016, @08:21PM
A bit too absolutist. What about sugar in drinks/snacks? A chemical/product should provably be at some level of harm before the government is triggered into action.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 10 2016, @11:02AM
If each kneecapping reduced the number of people hit by a train by a figure that is higher than the ratio of their badnesses, we probably should.