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It's false, at least insofar as teen smoking goes. E-cigarettes have more or less completely erased any gains in getting teens to stop smoking over the past cou
by jakelazaroff 7y ago
It's false, at least insofar as teen smoking goes. E-cigarettes have more or less completely erased any gains in getting teens to stop smoking over the past couple decades. https://www.politifact.com/virginia/statements/2019/jun/12/tim-kaine/has-vaping-wiped-out-progress-reducing-youth-smoki/ https://www.politifact.com/virginia/statements/2019/jun/12/t...
- dr_dshiv 7y agoNo! Read the article. Teens are vaping more but smoking less. The article is equivocal about the health effects of vaping and smoking but that is ridiculous. Smoking is a known cause of early death. Suggesting that "we don't know" about vaping is just silly. Replacing a known killer with something that probably doesn't kill is good.
- nemothekid 7y agoI'm not arguing the veracity of his claims - just that his claims aren't new to the company. After all its imperative that the company is marketed as a "health" solution in order to recruit and skirt regulations, so I wouldn't automatically believe they are acting "morally"; Internally they might believe they need as many teens hooked as possible.