For the past few years, the United States public health community has been amplifying irrational fears among certain sections of the public toward youth vaping.
At times, it has reached such fevered levels that one could be forgiven for forgetting that respected public health bodies in the United Kingdom have estimatedĀ vapes to be at leastĀ 95 percentĀ less harmful than the combustible cigarettes they typically replace.
So it was interesting to see the UK response last month to a recent uptick in youth use of e-cigarettes. This had led the pressājust as excitable in the UK as in the Statesāto produce several sensationalist articlesĀ ramping up a moral panicĀ around vaping that is, of course, unrepresentative of the situation.
Butāin a contrast that should be embarrassing to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), andĀ American public health nonprofitsāthe British public health establishmentĀ didnātĀ jump on the media bandwagon and stoke up further panic.
Martin Cullip – Filter – 2022-09-15.