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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 ikanreed on Friday December 09 2016, @08:17PM
Yes I do dispute that. You're wrong. You're 100% wrong.
You're arguing from example. The reality is that any drug which has passed safety inspections sufficient to be sold freely, can be examined, bought, and consumed from any number of privately run drug stores in the country, with non-government, expert oversight required in situations where taking the substance is measurably risky and hard for non-expert to understand.
Sorry this is once again a case where the libertarian "side" is just being an obsessed idiot who decries any and all regulation on willful misunderstandings. It's basically baby's first ideology, and a modest amount of self-critical analysis would have driven you to ways you're just utterly incorrect.
(The excessive use of force by police enforcing laws is a serious problem, and in general, enforcement of this medical law should be run through citations and fines)
(Score: 2) by rondon on Wednesday December 14 2016, @01:53PM
I don't understand how you are ignoring your own caveats. "Safety inspections sufficient" means that the government can declare any substance unsafe, regardless of actual safety, and then regulate that up unto the point of enforcing their rules with violence. The violence, I might add, can escalate to murder without serious repercussions. This strikes me as well within the definition of authoritarian.