Sixty years ago, the U.S. surgeon general released a report that settled a longstanding public debate about the dangers of cigarettes and led to huge changes in smoking in America.
Today, some public health experts say a similar report could help clear the air about vaping.
Many U.S. adults believe nicotine vaping is as harmful as — or more dangerous than — cigarette smoking. That’s wrong. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and most scientists agree that, based on available evidence, electronic cigarettes are far less dangerous than traditional cigarettes.
But that doesn’t mean e-cigarettes are harmless either. And public health experts disagree about exactly how harmful, or helpful, the devices are. Clarifying information is urgently needed, said Lawrence Gostin, a public health law expert at Georgetown University.
Vaping helped me quit a 15 year- two pack a day habit and for many smokers like myself it is a great smoking cessation tool. That being said, in the five years since I’ve quit smoking and vaping altogether I’ve watched vaping go from a smoking cessation aid to a gateway for non-smokers to find addiction in something new when they would have otherwise not smoked cigarettes.
The problem as always is that the vaping industry is way too lucrative a business. Proper oversight and regulation would cut profits and mitigate the ability for companies like Philip Morris and Juul Labs to create lifelong customers.
This is about the same history I have, except with 25 years of smoking. I’ve been off the analogs for 7 years now and haven’t had shortness of breath or night time wheezing in all of that time. I don’t like the idea of folks who don’t smoke getting on the vape, but I am also very against banning it as it would just lead to more people like me dying of smoking related diseases.
I’m not completely against the idea of them being prescription-based. Not completely for it either, though.
The direction regulation has been going I’m not so sure of either. They’ve limited the strength and last I heard they were planning on limiting flavours, but both of those things are helpful for breaking the smoking habit of converting it to a vaping habit for those who aren’t yet ready to quit but know they should stop smoking for their health. If the vape isn’t as satisfying or didn’t taste good, some won’t bother changing. I didn’t for a while because I didn’t initially get strong enough juice so vaping wouldn’t scratch the itch at all.
Nah, let’s wait for a couple more generations of profits, no sense in letting them go to waste just because a couple millions of people might suffer
Don’t we know enough by now to know it’s bad?. I’ve been waiting for a cannabis vaping report but they refuse to do it.
The problem is that it is bad, but likely not as bad as traditional smoking.
A lot of public health agencies don’t know what to do in that scenario.
Vaping is smoking imho.
Until proven otherwise that is my take on it.
Also smoking weed is smoking. I feel like that gets a pass for some reason.
Putting anything in your lungs, that’s not normal air, in high concentrations is usually bad.
Exactly. People like to fool themselves.
