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===2022: Opinion: [https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/99553 A Bold U.K. Plan to End the Smoking Epidemic]=== | ===2022: Opinion: [https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/99553 A Bold U.K. Plan to End the Smoking Epidemic]=== | ||
*Youth vaping is no longer an "epidemic." But these efforts, which too often inaccurately portray the risks of e-cigarettes, have led to significant public misunderstanding regarding the substantially lower health risks of e-cigarettes compared to combustible tobacco products. This, in turn, has impeded the promotion of tobacco harm reduction to the more than 30 million adults who still smoke. | *Youth vaping is no longer an "epidemic." But these efforts, which too often inaccurately portray the risks of e-cigarettes, have led to significant public misunderstanding regarding the substantially lower health risks of e-cigarettes compared to combustible tobacco products. This, in turn, has impeded the promotion of tobacco harm reduction to the more than 30 million adults who still smoke. | ||
*Nicotine causes dependency | *Nicotine causes dependency but does not itself cause the many diseases resulting from the inhalation of burned tobacco, a fact misunderstood by the majority of physicians... | ||
===2021: [https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306416 Balancing Consideration of the Risks and Benefits of E-Cigarettes]=== | |||
*Many US governmental health agencies and nongovernmental medical and health organizations focus primarily on vaping’s risks for young people. These organizations’ pronouncements and their influence on policymakers and the media have had a profound impact on the public’s understanding of vaping. | |||
* A study of US news articles on e-cigarettes found that, from 2015 to 2018, 70% of articles mentioned vaping’s risks for youths, while only 37.3% noted potential benefits for adult smokers. | |||
*Unfortunately, the public has a distorted view of the dangers associated with nicotine per see. Of respondents to a 2019 national survey, nearly half considered vaping nicotine just as harmful as or more harmful than cigarette smoking. Only 1 in 8 considered vaping less harmful. | |||
*The public’s inaccurate perception worsened following a 2019 vaping-associated acute pulmonary disease outbreak [EVALI]...research attributed the illness to vitamin E acetate, an adulterant in illicit tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) vaping devices...Yet, after the outbreak, two thirds of respondents to a poll related the lung disease deaths to use of “e-cigarettes such as JUUL.” Only 28% related the deaths to use of “marijuana or THC e-cigarettes.” | |||
* In a recent survey of physicians, 80% strongly, but incorrectly, agreed that nicotine causes cancer, cardiovascular disease, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. | |||
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