A morbidity and mortality report released by the CDC in June of this year revealed stark decreases in smoking among younger populations. In 2016, 47.2% of high schoolers and 42.4% of middle schoolers admitted to using tobacco products\u2014e-cigarettes occupying 11.3% of high schooler and 4.3% of middle schooler tobacco consumption.<\/p>\n
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However, recent numbers have shown that the numbers have decreased by more than 50% for high schoolers–20.2%–and middle school aged consumption was down over 85%– measuring in at 7.2% as of May 2017. These numbers are calling into question the U.S. Food and Drug Administration\u2019s claims that there have been “no significant declines in overall high school tobacco use.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The CDC has often mirrored the claims of the FDA by continuing to lump e-cigarettes in with traditional tobacco products such as cigarettes and cigars, ignoring the fact that many vaping products contain less or even ZERO nicotine as compared to their traditional counterparts.<\/p>\n
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The evidence is piling up. Even the CDC has recently unveiled a new webpage on e-cigarettes conceding that \u201ce-cigarettes have the potential to benefit adult smokers who are not pregnant if used as a complete substitute for regular cigarettes and other smoked tobacco products.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Public Health England (PHE), a government agency in the UK published a detailed report in 2015 stating a need to publicize the \u201ccurrent best estimate that using [electronic cigarettes] is around 95% safer than smoking.\u201d<\/p>\n
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While vaping may not be 100% safe (and let\u2019s be real\u2014what is?), there is now mounting evidence supporting that it is far less hazardous than the political pundits and governmental agencies would have us believe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A morbidity and mortality report released by the CDC in June of this year revealed stark decreases in smoking among younger populations. In 2016, 47.2% of high schoolers and 42.4% of middle schoolers admitted to using tobacco products\u2014e-cigarettes occupying 11.3% of high schooler and 4.3% of middle schooler tobacco consumption. However, recent numbers have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":1388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vaping-blog","editor-tinymce"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n