Tobacco 21 Advocates Are Pushing The Debunked ‘Gateway’ Vaping Narrative
Research has not supported that it’s that effective to get people to stop smoking and, as it turns out, the only people who are just using e-cigarettes are the adolescents,” said Dr. Jennifer Shalz of St. Alphonsus Regional Med Center, according to WTVA. “They’ll start vaping first and they’ll move on to cigarettes. That’s the hope of the tobacco companies. They are replacement smokers. They are replacing the people who are smokers who died.” The U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse and the University of Michigan’s annual Monitoring the Future Survey, released Dec. 14, shows reported cigarette use among 12th graders fell to 4.2 percent this year, down from 24.6 percent in 1997, even as the number of youth experimenting with vaping devices increased. Read the full article at: thelibertarianrepublic.com