An FDA-funded study falsely claims that e-cigarette use negatively impacts health and increases utilization and cost.
Misinformation is incorrect or misleading information. It is different from disinformation, which is deliberately deceptive.
Both are rampant in the vaping industry; however, it is difficult to distinguish between them.
Complicating the issue, it’s impossible to tell if researchers of disproven or flawed anti-vaping studies conducted defective studies intentionally or if they were just bad at their jobs. Many vapor industry advocates claim researchers are intentionally coming to conclusions that fit the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s “supposed goal” of eventually banning all nicotine products, especially when the studies are being funded by the FDA.
In one recent study, researchers found that the use of electronic cigarettes costs the United States $15 billion annually in healthcare expenditures—more than $2,000 per person a year. The study, published on May 23 in Tobacco Control, is the first to look at the healthcare costs of e-cigarette use among adults aged 18 and older, according to researchers at the University of California San Francisco School of Nursing.
“Our finding indicates that healthcare expenditures for a person who uses e-cigarettes are $2,024 more per year than for a person who doesn’t use any tobacco products,” said lead author Yingning Wang of the University of California San Francisco Institute for Health and Aging.
VaporVoice – 2022-07-19
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