1/2 @CJBoyd_Research: No one vapes THC in "ENDS." THC vs. nicotine vapes = different devices.
Your study found “wheezing or whistling” in teens who vaped THC. And it found that teens who vape nicotine ("ecigs") have no respiratory symptoms. None. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
2/2 So, consider the logic of your statement on @CNN:
"Without a doubt, e-cigarettes are unhealthy and not good for lungs." ["Of course, we couldn't find any harms from nicotine vaping ('e-cigarettes'), but it just stands to reason there must be some."] cnn.com/2021/03/03/hea…
PS: I cannot state strongly enough how the community of millions of adult ex-smokers who use #SaferNicotine to avoid toxic forms of tobacco HATE the term "ENDS."
And how much we hate @CDCgov's insistence that some people vape THC in "Electronic NICOTINE Delivery Systems."
...It's Orwellian. A deliberate example of thought control, conflating two entirely different things.
THC vs. nicotine vapes involve entirely different devices, liquids, people and purposes. One gets you high. The other helps adult smokers quit and thus not die.
REMINDER
If nicotine vapes ("e-cigarettes") are, in fact, safer than smoking, and help smokers quit, they are (obviously) profoundly different from recreational drugs like alcohol, caffeine & cannabis.
So, what if we just ask ex-smokers who vape how they're doing?
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(2) Among ex-smokers who quit by switching to nicotine vapes, 93% say their health improved. 62% say "improved dramatically." The 5% who said "no change" said "I was healthy to begin with."
Healthier. This is so different from daily screaming headlines.
(3) Among ex-smokers who quit by switching to nicotine vapes ("e-cigarettes"), 90% say they now have fewer and less sever lung infections. We're healthier. Does no one care?
LED candles (tea candles). No combustion. Our passive protest against #COP9FCTC efforts to - literally - kill us and other #SaferNicotine user like us.
LED candles (tea candles). No combustion. Our passive protest against #COP9FCTC efforts to - literally - kill us and other #SaferNicotine user like us.
LED candles. No combustion. Our passive protest against #COP9FCTC efforts to - very literally - kill us and other #SaferNicotine user like us, plus 1.1 billion smokers.
Lets explore @FDATobacco infographics. These data come from @CDCTobaccoFree's National Youth Tobacco Survey.
US teen nicotine vaping increased in 2018 (to twice what it is today), so FDA's infographic focused on the percentage increase. @DrWoodcockFDA
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(2) In 2019, US teen vaping increased again, but it's not clear WHAT they were vaping. @CDCTobaccoFree forgot to ask that in 2019, so much of this "increase" may be THC vaping, not nicotine.
This time there's a graph, huge letters saying "ALARMING," and an absolute number.
(3) By 2020, US teen vaping had dropped 29%. This was before the pandemic hit (before schools closed).
@FDATobacco admits teen vaping dropped 1.8 million.
Daily use is obscured by hiding it under "current use." It's actually only 4.4%.
The death toll from smoking is staggering (including my own father). 8 million people die every year from smoking who.int/news-room/fact…
...including 480,000 in the USA cdc.gov/tobacco/data_s…
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Harm reduction can reduce that death toll, according to 15 past-Presidents of the world's leading professional society in tobacco control. ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.210…
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So... Here is the @US_FDA's original infographic. Let's take a good look at what they told the public about the National Youth Tobacco Survey 2020 (specifically March 2020, so just before the pandemic).
(2) Next... Unless you read this VERY carefully, you will not understand frequent use, and daily use, are given as a percentage of "current use."
(3) One key to good infographics: They deliver facts clearly and need no translation.
This one from @FDATobacco needed translation. You have to do the math to find out how many US high school kids vaped frequent, or daily, in March 2020 (before the pandemic).
15 past-Presidents of the Society for Research on Nicotine & Tobacco embrace THR. They are veterans of the fight against big tobacco. Not part of a "plot." ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.210…