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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: 2) by curunir_wolf on Saturday December 10 2016, @04:12PM

    by curunir_wolf (4772) on Saturday December 10 2016, @04:12PM (#439712)

    No, it's not incorrect. You can say that some e-liquid used in e-cigarettes are tobacco products. But it's disingenuous and a lie to put e-cigarettes into that category at all.

    It's actually LESS accurate than claiming that vehicles are petroleum products. Yes, there are lots of vehicles that run on petroleum products, but many that do not. By claiming all vehicles are petroleum products you are inaccurately describing what they are.

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  • (Score: 2) by butthurt on Sunday December 11 2016, @03:30AM

    by butthurt (6141) on Sunday December 11 2016, @03:30AM (#439871) Journal

    Let's go back to your statement:

    [Electronic cigarettes] have no nicotine and no tobacco [is] used to create them.

    Disposable electronic cigarettes, which come pre-filled with a fluid that can contain nicotine, exist. From the product page for Imperial Tobacco's blu eCigs:

    This product contains nicotine derived from tobacco.

    -- https://www.blu.com/en/US/e-cigs/blu-disposable [blu.com]

    Veppos and Vapourlites also contain nicotine, although they don't disclose its source:

    http://www.veppocig.com/disposable-e-cigs/ [veppocig.com]
    http://www.vapourlites.com/disposable-electronic-cigarette.html [vapourlites.com]

    You didn't qualify your statement with "some" or like wording; those are three examples that contradict it.

    • (Score: 2) by curunir_wolf on Sunday December 11 2016, @09:45PM

      by curunir_wolf (4772) on Sunday December 11 2016, @09:45PM (#440076)

      You didn't qualify your statement with "some" or like wording; those are three examples that contradict it.

      For some reason, you are now holding me to a greater standard than you are holding the Surgeon General of the US. That really seems myopic.

      Blu are products produced by the big tobacco companies playing "catch-up" to the e-cigarette market. Veppo is busy working to these onerous regulations [veppocig.com] which are being promoted with lies and pseudoscience. You are cherry-picking Veppo's products. One small portion of their offering contains nicotine, the vast majority do not.

      And it's not "some". It's the vast majority of these products that are made without any tobacco. Tomatoes, eggplant, and other foods always contain nicotine. Should we call those tobacco products as well, even though they do not contain tobacco?

      Why you want to defend the lies and deceit of these fascists bureaucrats is beyond me. I assume you are a marketing representative for big tobacco, or simply someone that is okay with eliminating these products and promoting death and suffering for the people that will resort to combustibles when they are gone.

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