Vaping and Teens - Don't Ban It - Prescribe It

NEW YORK - Sept. 20, 2019 - PRLog -- Keeping teens from eCigarettes is a classic dilemma: if you ban them you make them more desirable. If you make them unavailable you create black markets.

The worst part is that we don't even have a moral high ground or the ability to shut teens off altogether – because they now have medically approved alternatives.

Tobacco usage might have declined over the past 30 years from approximately 46% of the adult population to the low 20's, but the use of mood-altering prescription medications has increased in mirror-fashion from about 24 to 46%, according CDC figures. So, the decline in smoking was a kind of smoke screen, concealed its true nature as a kind self-medication.

Smoking, after all, is not a random act – it is a form of mind-body sustenance, however controversial, and that has never gone away.

Amazingly, this point never comes up and so smoking and vaping is almost always seen as a high moral issue: on the one side are good citizens, concerned politicians and exalted physicians – few of whom are strangers to mood medications - with miscreants, degenerates and generally wayward and somehow, lesser humans on the other.

So let's take a reality check: whenever you see someone in a white coat wagging their fingers at young people on TV about just how dangerous and stupid any kind of inhalation product is to the lungs, you have to wonder, isn't this the same group of people who prescribed opioids at the drop of a hat?

Of course inhaling vapors or smoke is dangerous, but that's the point – all medications have side effects and possible health issues of which many can be fatal. ECigarettes, have been around since the early 2000's and while there are no definitive long-term studies, unlike tobacco there has been little evidence of serious health issues. With smoking, studies by the tobacco industry showed that many smokers wanted the danger of smoke. With vaping, this generation seems to be looking to avoid that danger.

And they were - until some companies began putting Vitamin E in their product, which seems to have precipitated this current vaping crisis.

Nevertheless, this momentary mis-step by some - but certainly not the major legitimate manufacturers like Juul, Vuse, Logic etc. has brought out the big guns from the Health Care establishment and legislators.

Why?

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