Imagine waking up one morning and reading the following statement from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): “Hundreds of people have been hospitalized due to side effects of Covid19 vaccinations.
Being vaccinated risks known adverse consequences of blood clotting and cardiovascular problems.” Also imagine that the CDC failed to mention the hugely greater advantages of taking the vaccines for hundreds of millions of people. You would, quite rightly, think they had taken leave of their senses.
Yet, this is precisely what the CDC is doing when talking about reduced risk products which are helping millions of smokers quit tobacco.
On its website, the CDC ominously warns that vaping nicotine e-cigarettes can cause hospitalization and death despite their knowing very well that all so-called EVALI cases were caused by the use of illegal vaping cartridges that contained tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) – the active ingredient in cannabis. Moreover, many of the culprit vapes were obtained by black market sources – unlike conventional nicotine-containing e-cigarettes. At no point does the CDC care to inform the public that vaping has so far helped nearly 10 million Americans to quit smoking and can help adults avoid the well-known harms of smoking-related disease and death.
A December 2021 CDC press release doubled down on a questionable study condemning all tobacco harm reduction products by issuing a dire warning about nicotine pouches, saying that “manufacturers are currently marketing nicotine pouches and e-cigarettes with synthetic nicotine in the US … nicotine is an addictive drug with known adverse consequences for fetal development and adolescent brain development.” Absent from this advice is any recognition of the huge potential benefits of nicotine pouches to the tens of millions of Americans still accessing nicotine via lethal combustible tobacco.
Martin Cullip – The Center Square – 2022-01-25.
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