Fears of a Youth Vaping Epidemic May be Overblown, Finds NYU Analysis While youth vaping rates have increased in recent years, most middle and high school students don’t vape or smoke and very few vape or smoke daily, finds a study led by researchers at NYU School of Global Public Health. The study, published this month […]
Knee-jerk vaping bans will fail public health, experts argue
Evidence supports e-cigarettes as a harm-reduction tool Bans and other policies restricting e-cigarette sales could do more public harm than good, according to a group of public-health, tobacco-policy and ethics experts. In a piece published online today (Dec. 12, 2019) in the journal Science, the authors, including three public health deans, caution that blanket policies developed […]
Arkansas AG Leslie Rutledge Takes Action Against eBay Vape Seller
Every day, hundreds of responsible online retailers of vaping products use multiple tools to stop minors from illegally accessing vaping products, including third-party age verification, requesting scans of government-issued IDs, and requiring billing/shipping addresses to match. Unfortunately, this level of dedication is not seen across all businesses and individuals who sell vaping products on the […]
Behold, the Gateway Effect: CDC Reports 50%+ Decline in Smoking by 18-24 Year-Olds Since 2014
New data out from the CDC’s National Health Interview Survey charts a big decline in past 30-day cigarette smoking among adults aged 18-24 years from 2014 to 2018. Despite nearly a decade of claims that youth vaping would lead to a resurgence in smoking, the generation that grew up with years of exposure to vaping […]
Public Health England Strikes Back at False Claims About Their “At Least 95% Safer” Estimate
In response to misleading attacks on Public Health England’s published reports estimating vaping to be at least 95% less harmful than smoking, Professor John Newton (Director of Health Improvement for PHE) and Martin Dockrell (Tobacco Control Programme Lead for PHE) recently published a blistering response in the American Journal of Public Health. That response (with […]
