Opinion: The vaping panic was the result of media malpractice and political opportunism. Now it's looking eerily like the start of a new drug war. By anthonylfisher.
what the readily available data already showed: The "epidemic" of vaping-related illnesses was almost entirely confined to black-market THC cartridges containing vitamin E acetate. The Food and Drug Administration has banned nearly all flavored vapes. Some cities have banned vaping entirely. The race to pile on new prohibitions is a bipartisan effort.
. In her 2015 study of adults who had tested positive for marijuana, only 84% were willing to own up to their drug use. And that wasThe second panic catalyst was the context-free reading of the rising rates of nicotine vaping among young people. , the percentage of high-school seniors who vaped in the previous 30 days more than doubled — from 11 to 25.4% — between 2017 and 2019.
However, there's a rarely reported caveat. Fewer teens are smoking cigarettes than at any time since such statistics have been recorded. But rather than exploring whether the increase in nicotine vaping, a smoking-cessation tool, had anything to do with fewer Americans being diagnosed with cancer, the article inexplicably asks, "Could vaping e-cigarettes lead to a rebound in US lung cancer deaths?"
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