Posted on 04/16/2014 4:08:52 PM PDT by Drango
The tobacco industry is sharply raising spending on advertisements and other marketing for electronic cigarettes to try to make smoking glamorous again and hook a new generation of Americans on nicotine.
If adults choose to “vape” — inhale nicotine-laced vapor from battery-powered e-cigarettes — then they should be free to do so.
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Public health authorities are especially worried about such ads’ effect on teens. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that from 2011 to 2012, the percentage of high school students who have tried e-cigarettes more than doubled to 10 percent.
“It is frankly appalling,” said CDC Director Tom Frieden. “Nicotine is highly addictive. If kids have more access to nicotine, they are quite likely to have a lifetime addiction to tobacco products, including cigarettes.”
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“The second coming of tobacco marketing is pouring millions into adland,” Advertising Age reported. ~snip
Promoting e-cigarettes also risks encouraging smoking, in general. Some current smokers will be less inclined to quit if they can vape in places where combustibles are banned.
Furthermore, the CDC was unhappy to find that many former smokers are now using e-cigarettes.
“We are very concerned that under the guise of reducing harm, [e-cigarettes] will actually increase smoking,” Frieden said.
Still, the biggest concern about e-cigarettes is the young. Researchers have established that nicotine damages adolescent brain development, and that teens are more vulnerable than adults to getting addicted.
The FDA should impose a nationwide ban on selling e-cigarettes to people younger than 18. More than half the states, including Maryland and Virginia, have some form of age limit already. But other states and the District do not. ~snip
Vape if you want. That’s your business.
But don’t give tobacco companies free rein to profit by manipulating the public’s mind and jeopardizing its health.
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My granddaughter, who will be a freshman next year, and I had a talk last week. She was telling me about all the ‘stoners’ at her school. This is an upper middle class junior high. Haven’t heard anything anywhere about this epidemic, except from her.
Moronic. A pack-a-day smoker spends $5/day ($13 in NYC), $150/month, $1800/year. An e-cig smoker spends $30 about 4 times a year for the cig itself, and about $8 per bottle of oil, which lasts for about a week or so... (4 x 30) + (8 x 52)... that’s $120 + $416 = $536 per year, instead of $1800 per year. Why on earth would any “big evil corporation” work to cut their revenues by 2/3?
Vaping oils that contain THC (the active ingredient in marijuana) are already being made.
The liberals assume that Soylent Green made from smokers will have to be sold at a loss by the government because it won’t taste as good.
I, however, figure it will get a premium price for it’s nicotine content.
I have not had a cigarette since October. Vaping has really helped me. I have tried patches gum you name it without success, but vaping has. I can even vape in the office. I am tapering my nicotine content. I was at 18 now I am down to 12.
The FDA - Federal Drugged Agency. Another agency that needs to be disbanded. The FDA should go into the Department of Commerce.
LOL. That’s true.
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