Thread by @Headsnipe011

I want to string some releases together about kids and "Vaping"

Hopefully the information in this thread can help raise awareness of the situation

In January, this came out:

Surgeon General releases advisory on E-cigarette epidemic among youth

justtherealnews.com/2019/01/08/sur…

"Data from Nat'l Institutes of Health’s Monitoring the Future survey also shows that America’s teens reported a dramatic increase in their use of e-cigarettes. in just a single year, with 37.3% of 12th graders reporting use in the past 12 months, compared to 27.8% in 2017."

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"One of the most commonly sold versions is JUUL, which now has more than a 70 percent share of the cartridge-based e-cigarette market in the United States. A typical JUUL cartridge, or “pod,” contains about as much nicotine as a pack of 20 regular cigarettes."

***Then there is this from the CDC in February:***

Tobacco Use by Youth is Rising

justtherealnews.com/2019/02/11/tob…

"Let me give you the bottom line. In 2018, 27.1% of high school students and 7.2% of...middle school students currently use any tobacco product that equates to 4.9 million of our nation’s youth who reported currently using tobacco product, a substantial increase over 2017.

The increase is being driven in a surge e-cigarette use in these young people. There were 1.5 million more youth using e-cigarettes in 2018 compared to 2017.

From 2017 to 2018 e-cigarette use increased from 11.7 percent to 20.8 percent among high school students and from 3.3 percent to 4.9 percent among — middle school students.

There was no change in the use of other tobacco product including cigarettes from 2017 to 2018. E-cigarettes are still the most commonly used tobacco product among middle and high school student, reported for the fifth year in a row...

but within the past year use of e-cigarettes among our nation’s youth has reached unprecedented and epidemic proportions and those who are using them are using them more often as we reported in November."

. . . "We want everyone particularly parents and teachers to know how dangerous use of nicotine in any form is for kids. Nicotine is highly addictive and can harm brain development including harmful effects on learning, memory, and attention."

***In March:***

Statement from FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D., on forceful new actions focused on retailers, manufacturers to combat youth access to e-cigarettes as part of FDA’s Youth Tobacco Prevention Plan

justtherealnews.com/2019/03/04/sta…

Today, we’re taking several new actions, focused on both retailers and manufacturers, as part of our commitment to combat youth access to e-cigarettes.

Because tobacco use is almost always initiated and established during adolescence, early intervention ‒ including making sure tobacco products aren’t being marketed to, sold to, or used by kids ‒ is critical.

First, we sent a letter today to the corporate management of Walgreen Co. to request a meeting to discuss whether there is a corporate-wide issue related to their stores’ track record of violating the law by illegally selling tobacco products to kids.

As we noted last month, in total, the company’s stores have racked up almost 1,800 violations across the country.

They’re currently the top violator among pharmacies that sell tobacco products, with 22% of the more than 6,350 stores that we inspected having illegally sold tobacco products to minors.

In total, we’ve identified 15 national retail chains, either corporate-owned or franchised, whose rates of violative inspections exceed 15 percent of their total inspected stores since the inception of the FDA’s retailer compliance check inspection program in 2010.

. . . Today, we’re also announcing that we’ve sent letters to more than 40 companies seeking information about whether more than 50 products – including a variety of flavored e-cigarette products – are being illegally marketed and outside the agency’s current compliance policy.

Some of these companies may be attempting to capitalize on the troubling popularity of products like JUUL among kids by illegally selling similar products and outside of the compliance policy.

. . .We also today sent our first warning letters to several companies for, among other things, selling electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS) products & a waterpipe tobacco product with labeling &/or advertising that failed to include the required nicotine warning statement.

This is an important public health warning and it’s imperative that consumers are adequately informed of the presence of nicotine in tobacco products...

and understand the risks – especially kids, who research shows are mistaken or unaware of the risks and the presence of nicotine in e-cigarettes.

. . .
We’ll continue vigorous enforcement activities, with a sustained campaign to monitor, penalize and help prevent e-cigarette sales to minors in retail locations, including manufacturers’ internet storefronts,

as well as take additional steps to tackle other concerns related to the youth access and appeal of these products.

. . .

We also have studies underway, including investigations that FDA commissioned, to look at the potential for direct effects of harm from e-cigarettes on the lungs & other health factors. This includes the potential for products to cause changes that could be a precursor to cancer.

While we believe that e-cigarettes offer a potentially safer alternative to combustible tobacco for currently addicted adult smokers who completely switch to these products, these products are not without risks.

This is one reason why we strongly believe that no child should be using an e-cigarette or any other tobacco product.

***Through this raised level of awareness, we have this (July 24, 2019):***

Economic and Consumer Policy Subcommittee Held Part I of Hearings on JUUL’s Role in Youth Nicotine Addition Epidemic

justtherealnews.com/2019/07/24/eco…

TAKEAWAYS

• JUUL targeted schools, downplayed the health impacts and encouraged students to use their products.  Meredith Berkman, co-founder of Parents Against Vaping E-cigarettes, testified with two young people that JUUL repeatedly called their product “totally safe,”

demonstrated how the product worked, and recommended that a nicotine- addicted student use JUUL during a presentation to their 9th grade class, without teachers or parents present.

• Rae O’Leary, of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, testified that JUUL targeted Native American tribes to use as “guinea pigs.”

In exchange for a $600,000 investment, JUUL solicited tribal medical professionals to provide their devices to tribal members for free and collect information on the tribal members.

• JUUL is replicating marketing tactics formerly used by Big Tobacco. Dr. Robert Jackler, Stanford University School of Medicine, testified about his conversations with JUUL co-founder James Monsees,

who said the use of Stanford’s tobacco advertising database was “very helpful as they designed JUUL’s advertising.”

***Last one, from July 25, 2019. This is a MUST READ. I would be sharing the whole post if I tried to share the important parts:***

New Documents Show JUUL Deliberately Targeted Children to Become the Nation’s Largest Seller of E-Cigarettes

justtherealnews.com/2019/07/25/new…