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Vaping causes nicotine addiction which has the secondary risk using of tobacco products later in life. In other words ecigs is a gateway to smoking. Youth Who
by tantalor 8y ago
Vaping causes nicotine addiction which has the secondary risk using of tobacco products later in life. In other words ecigs is a gateway to smoking.
Youth Who Use Vaping Products Are More Likely to Smoke Cigarettes, Increase Use of Both Over Time
https://www.rand.org/news/press/2018/10/02.html https://www.rand.org/news/press/2018/10/02.html
- zeta0134 8y agoSpecifically, vaping with nicotine causes the nicotine addiction. But there's a really awesome alternative: you can vape nicotine free. Any decent vape shop will let you pick out the strength that you like, and 0% is an option. One of my roommates did just that, because he liked the social benefits: getting to pretend he was a dragon, hanging out with his other friends during their smoke breaks, etc. Of course this doesn't solve any potential other problems with the practice (the popcorn lung scare from a while back comes to mind) but in theory, if you simply must smoke, it's possible to do so without any nicotine at all.
- treebeard901 8y agoThe real long term danger here might be to get an entire generation hooked on vaping as a safer alternative, then remove vape devices from the market. That's a whole lot of potential new customers (nicotine addicts) for traditional cigarette companies.
- kgwxd 8y agoIf vaping is ever removed, I would think cigarettes would go with them.
- solarkraft 8y agoIn what world would vaping devices not be sold, but cigarettes?
- treebeard901 8y agoRecent comments about regulation lead me to believe it is possible. The government has already pushed to remove Juul from gas stations while leaving cigarettes. Maybe it is far fetched to say this approach could be expanded but I’m not so sure anymore.
- capitalsigma 8y agoVaping is illegal in Thailand, but cigarettes aren't
- moltar 8y agoVaping is banned in Thailand. And guess why? Right, because cigarette companies were threatened and they lobbied the government.
- madaxe_again 8y agoCorrelation, causation. That link provides nothing to say that vaping leads to smoking apart from the say-so of their analyst. It’s equally possible that their smoking leads to vaping.
- porphyrogene 8y agoThis is what ignoring evidence looks like. The study is very clear on how they gathered their data and how it was analyzed.
- capitalsigma 8y agoVaping among former smokers is clearly different from vaping among the tobacco niave: I know what cigarettes are like and I don't want to go back.
- madaxe_again 8y agoThis is what dogmatism looks like. The study is very clear that the behavioural flow goes both ways, and that this is a cohort rather than individual effect: “Models revealed robust reciprocal associations between EC and cigarette use, such that more frequent EC use at one time predicted more frequent cigarette use at the subsequent time, and vice versa. Between-person analyses showed associations between shared risk factors and both EC and cigarette use. However, shared risk factors did not predict frequency of subsequent EC and cigarette use in within-person analyses.” Please, show me where they say it is clearly causative.
- porphyrogene 8y ago> Please, show me where they say it is clearly causative. You are either being intentionally obtuse or you misunderstand the purpose of a study. This is a published study, not a Fox News article.
- madaxe_again 8y agoAh, resorting to ad hominem attacks because you can’t. Alright, then.