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One trouble with e-cigs that prevents them from being an unmitigated win is that their aggressive marketing targeted towards children is highly effective at get
by JeremyNT 7y ago
One trouble with e-cigs that prevents them from being an unmitigated win is that their aggressive marketing targeted towards children is highly effective at getting new users addicted to nicotine. This is a reversal of the trend of long term gradual decline in the use of tobacco-derived products (in developed economies, anyway).
On the face of it this seems unrelated to lung cancer rates, but there's concern in the public health community that some percentage of these users will graduate to smoking tobacco over time.
I don't think we really know whether those concerns will be borne out, or whether they'll counteract adults switching in time to save themselves.
- t-writescode 7y agoI have trouble believing that people will actually switch from ecigs to actual cigarettes. Adjustable nicotine flavored steam vs cough-inducing smoke with possibly less nicotine? I guess a cigarette is smaller and easier to use where there’s no electricity source? I guess a small percentage might migrate, though, as always happens with anything where you _can_ migrate. A small percentage would try regular cigarettes in the first place too. It will be interesting to see if small subgroup of bigger, new subgroup is larger than historical subgroup.