{"id":1616,"date":"2018-05-10T18:51:51","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T18:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vaporgalleriapittsburgh.com\/?p=1616"},"modified":"2018-05-10T18:51:51","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T18:51:51","slug":"teen-vaping-epidemic-mostly-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vaporgalleria.com\/pittsburgh\/teen-vaping-epidemic-mostly-propaganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen Vaping \u2018Epidemic\u2019 is Mostly Propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vaping may not be perfect, but it\u2019s objectively better for you than traditional cigarettes. It\u2019s time to slice through the media propaganda once again with a weekly dose of truth. Despite increased frequencies of fear-mongering headlines touting the risks and rising numbers of vaping among America\u2019s youth, statistics (a.k.a. a little thing called science) are stating otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So, when that editorial pops up in your Feed or Timeline describing the \u201cteen vaping epidemic\u201d and how school and public health officials are growing increasingly concerned, keep the following facts in mind:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>1. Smoking among high schoolers has <em>dropped<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yes. The frenzy being stirred up by the media about the dangers of vaping and its potential as a gateway to traditional smoking is nothing more than a smokescreen. The fact is that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been studying the numbers of teen smokers. From 2011 to 2016 those numbers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/66\/wr\/mm6623a1.htm\">fell from 22 percent to 14 percent<\/a> for traditional cigarettes. E-cig use has also fallen from 16 percent to 11 percent from 2015 to 2016.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>2. Vaping isn\u2019t perfect, but it\u2019s <em>better <\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019d think governmental agencies and Washington lobbyists were truly concerned with protecting public health, the way they\u2019ve rallied against the vaping industry. Conceding the fact that cigarettes are dangerous but reminding us that vaping isn\u2019t harmless. Well, of course not. Very few things are <em>completely<\/em> harmless. However, vaping isn\u2019t claiming to be so. Vaping is meant to urge traditional smokers to adopt a harm-reducing alternative. One that numerous <a href=\"https:\/\/vaporgalleria.com\/blog\/british-scientists-endorse-vaping\/\">global health organizations have already endorsed<\/a> as objectively less harmful than cigarettes, by the way.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>3. The FDA seems to be taking sides<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has openly <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2018\/05\/02\/the-teen-vaping-epidemic-is-a-myth\/\"><strong>forbidden<\/strong> e-cigarette manufacturers and firms from advertising health advantages of e-cigs over cigarettes<\/a>, suppressing information that could assist consumers in making informed choices. At the same time, the FDA has committed to a policy proposal that would cut nicotine levels in traditional cigarettes to non-addictive levels. At face value, this may seem like an organization concerned with overall public wellbeing. But dig a little deeper and it looks like they\u2019re pulling out all the stops they can to keep Big Tobacco afloat in an inevitably sinking ship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vaping may not be perfect, but it\u2019s objectively better for you than traditional cigarettes. It\u2019s time to slice through the media propaganda once again with a weekly dose of truth. Despite increased frequencies of fear-mongering headlines touting the risks and rising numbers of vaping among America\u2019s youth, statistics (a.k.a. a little thing called science) are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":1617,"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-1616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vaping-blog","editor-tinymce"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Teen Vaping \u2018Epidemic\u2019 is Mostly Propaganda - Vapor Galleria Pittsburgh<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/vaporgalleria.com\/pittsburgh\/teen-vaping-epidemic-mostly-propaganda\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Teen Vaping \u2018Epidemic\u2019 is Mostly Propaganda - Vapor Galleria Pittsburgh\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Vaping may not be perfect, but it\u2019s objectively better for you than traditional cigarettes. 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