The FDA has ordered Juul to take its vaping devices off the market due to "insufficient and conflicting data" about the safety of its e-liquid pods. This has prompted another round of arguing about whether or not vaping is, on net, a public safety improvement, especially among teens. But I think the data is in on this:
Most teen vaping (roughly 80%) is nicotine vaping, and it's obviously bad to get kids hooked on nicotine. On the other hand, vaping is better than cigarette smoking, so if more vaping leads to lower cigarette use then it might be a net positive.
But as the chart shows, that's not the case. Teen cigarette smoking has been declining steadily for the past couple of decades and doesn't appear to be influenced even a tiny bit by vaping. This means that vaping has gotten more teens hooked on nicotine with no corresponding drop anywhere else to make up for it.
This doesn't mean you have to support a ban on vaping, or even a ban on non-prescription nicotine vaping. But as you think about it, this is the factual background to consider.
I'm agnostic on the following (or, more precisely, I haven't done enough research) but I am seeing multiple takes to the effect that vaping helps nontrivial numbers of people quit tobacco, and so this banning is, (so goes the argument) on net, a net negative for public health.
High nicotine levels means faster addiction. Candy flavorings probably aren't targeting the older cigarette user trying to quit. And most of sales are to those under 25 (ca. 85%; almost 30% of sales to under 18), so not long time cigarette users.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8082675/
Nicotine levels need to be regulated and candy flavors banned. Juul was banned from selling candy flavors and sales dropped off in the younger crowd.
That's ridiculous. Older people use flavorants as well.
Why is Antiwokista Kevin Drum promoting a kancelkulture against Juul?
Impose an exorbitant tax on any product containing nicotine except those expressly approved by the FDA for nicotine replacement therapy.
Yep. And require a prescription for smokers to get them to quit.
Mr SHannity vapes this brand, and for his brainwashed viewers, he`s said that he`s going to vape on his *program* until the police arrest him . poor boy .
As a high school teacher, I have observed that the chronic vaping of addicted teens is a problem in school. Kids are leaving every class to go to the bathroom to calm their withdrawal sympoms. Nicotine is one of the most addictive substances on the planet; using it to fatten profits at the expense of anyone is bad. Addicting teens for profit is worse.
And Juul is very good a delivering nicotine;
https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/01/416371/juul-delivers-substantially-more-nicotine-previous-generation-e-cigs-and
I read an article some time back that said that one reason quitting cigarettes/nicotine was so difficult was that inhalation was an incredibly effective way to get a lot of nicotine into your system very quickly. Nicotine is also extremely addictive.
Now, if you standardized the dose at the same level as a cigarette AND used it only as a replacement, yeah, vaping would be less harmful than cigarettes - none of the other crap you inhale along with the nicotine. So maybe that use makes sense IF you are already an addict. But it should not be sold to minors - why build your addict population? Other than to pour money into the vape maker's pockets, that is.
I have never seen any studies that prove most vaping is nicotine, tho. You assert it, but...
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