(1) Found on social media. These organizations use images of children, puppets and cartoon characters vaping. They inform teens "all your friends are doing it" and "they come in yummy flavors." First example: @truthorange@truthinitiative
(2) Found on social media. These organizations use images of children, puppets and cartoon characters vaping. They inform teens "all your friends are doing it" and "they come in yummy flavors." Next example: @TobaccoFreeKids
(3) Found on social media. These organizations use images of children, puppets and cartoon characters vaping. They inform teens "all your friends are doing it" and "they come in yummy flavors." Next example: @WHO@FCTCofficial
Over 35 respected scientific & public health organizations, and governments, around the world that have reviewed the evidence and issued public statements concluding e-cigarettes are safer than smoking.
2/8 None of these organizations have "industry influence." In fact, according to the @BloombergDotOrg-funded front group, @exposetobacco, the one country that makes the strongest public statements (the UK) is among the 4 least influenced by big tobacco. drive.google.com/file/d/1Ty7pgR…
3/8 It all starts to get pretty overwhelming no? And this is only 3 of 8. Thousands of experts have reviewed over 7,000 research studies on nicotine vapes ("e-cigarettes") and reached this conclusion: SAFER than smoking. Odd that @FCTCofficial continues to deny evidence.
November 2019: Because "use of e-cigarettes in young people has since skyrocketed to epidemic proportion," ACS decided to stop telling smokers the truth ("less harmful than smoking cigarettes"). cancer.org/healthy/stay-a…