Why Can’t the CDC Tell the Truth About Smoking and Vaping by Teenagers?

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The agency ignores downward trends in both kinds of nicotine use and obscures the huge difference in the hazards they pose.

The pandemic has given Americans ample reason to be skeptical of pronouncements by the Centers for Disease Control Prevention (CDC).

press release the CDC issued today reminds us that the agency’s habit of misleading the public began long before anyone had heard of COVID-19.

According to the latest results from the National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS), the CDC says, “about 2.55 million U.S. middle and high school students reported current (past 30-day) use of a tobacco product in 2021.” If you have not been paying attention to the CDC’s inveterate dishonesty on this subject, it may surprise you to learn that most of those 2.55 million students did not use products that contained tobacco.

The CDC routinely conflates e-cigarettes with “tobacco products,” despite the vast difference between the risks posed by vaping nicotine and the risks posed by inhaling smoke from conventional cigarettes. The press release notes that “about 1 in 3” of those 2.55 million students “used at least one type of combustible tobacco product,” which means two-thirds did not. The CDC says 410,000 of the past-month “tobacco product” users, or just 16 percent, were cigarette smokers. But the CDC implies that such distinctions don’t really matter, because “youth use of tobacco products is unsafe in any form—combustible, smokeless, or electronic.”

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Jacob Sullum – Reason – 2022-03-11.

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