Today’s message is about a subject called E-cigarettes. There is a lot of conversion out there and there are plenty of things that not only parents need to be concerned about, but adults smokers as well. It took a few years but the researchers have finally come up with the data to support that the vaping epidemic is indeed harmful to all of us. This is something that needs to be taken seriously.
Even though the e-cigarette industry is incredibly lucrative one, there’s a lot we really don’t know about vaping. But because there’s some evidence to suggest it’s marginally better for you than smoking tobacco, many people will do it in places where they would probably never smoke cigarettes, even though it may potentially put others’ health at risk.
According to a study published Monday in the journal Pediatrics, only about one-quarter of parents who smoke e-cigarettes or tobacco have rules against vaping in the house, even though 73 percent of parents who smoked cigarettes did have rules prohibiting tobacco use in the house. As reports tend to come out, we are going to become very active in the distribution of these reports that are made by those in authority.
By Maggie Fox
The Food and Drug Administration announced two major attacks on the tobacco industry Thursday, saying it will start the process to ban menthol in cigarettes and limit sales of flavored e-cigarettes to youths. The FDA’s long-deliberated moves are driven by new figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showing a 78 percent increase in vaping by high school students, with 3.6 million high school and middle school students now using e-cigarettes.
Calling the numbers “astonishing,” FDA commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb said he was stepping up his agency’s actions to curb youth vaping. “Among high school students, current e-cigarette use increased from 1.5 percent in 2011 to 20.8 percent in 2018,” the CDC report reads.
“These data shock my conscience: From 2017 to 2018, there was a 78 percent increase in current e-cigarette use among high school students and a 48 percent increase among middle school students,”
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