Tobacco Use is Soaring Among US Kids, Driven By E-cigarettes (axios.com)

Public health officials Monday said there's a growing epidemic of tobacco products currently used by children -- 4.9 million high school and middle school kids used tobacco products in 2018 up from 3.6 million in 2017 -- mainly due to a growth in e-cigarette usage. From a report: For the fifth year in a row, e-cigs were the most popular product amongst high school students, but in 2018 it reached unprecedented epidemic levels, with the addition of another 1.5 million kids, said Anne Schuchat, principal deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "Current users" are defined as people who've used a tobacco product in past 30 days. "Frequent users" are defined as people who've used the product for more than 20 out of the past 30 days.

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Light up while you can!

[vegabook]

Why is everyone moaning? Our leaders' policies will likely light us all up like Krakatoa before we hit 40. Might as well light up and enjoy because the way things are going, smoking is probably the last thing that'll kill you.

Re:e-cigarrettes arent tobacco

[Ol Olsoc]

However, nicotine is much more addictive than caffeine. It would be a mistake to equate them. And there are a variety of other chemicals in the vapes, which may or may not be harmful. And nicotine itself may contribute to cancer too.

And maryjooanna - AKA devil's lettuce -makes black people violent! That sounds insane, but once upon a time, that was considered to be truth,

The nicotine causes cancer bugaboo is so easy to pull out. Yet it backfires on the puritans on occasion, like when they shit their panties about bacon and cured meats "causing cancer" then we found out that humans get most of their nitrate load from....... wait for it..... veggies!

We should make eating veggies illegal, just to be safe.