{"id":22162,"date":"2020-07-28T12:19:08","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T16:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/?p=22162"},"modified":"2020-07-28T12:19:08","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T16:19:08","slug":"vaping-news-australia-survey-distorts-user-data-by-including-rarely-used-experimenters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/archives\/22162","title":{"rendered":"VAPING NEWS: AUSTRALIA [Survey Distorts &#8216;User&#8217; Data By Including Rarely Used Experimenters]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-offset-key=\"3h232-0-0\">&#8220;\u201cUnbelievable political games\u201d are being played in the latest Australian National Survey 2019. Figures have been massaged to demonstrate a huge growth in teen vaping \u2013 but all is not as it seems because of the way they are choosing to define full-time vaping. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/konstantinos.farsalinos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Konstantinos Farsalinos<\/a><\/strong> said that \u201cunbelievable political games\u201d are being played \u201cin the latest Australian National Survey 2019 concerning e-cigs. Current users includes less than monthly users, non-smokers includes former smokers!\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FarsalinosK\/status\/1285392930950336513\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Commenting on Twitter<\/a><\/strong>, he wrote: \u201cWhile there is an attempt to present e-cigs as a problem in Australia, there is one table that, strangely (or not so strangely), none reports! Australian smokers are deprived from a harm reduction option that can be life-saving, and none is held accountable for this. You also need to pay attention to the footnotes. They are very revealing of the way they created the definitions. Conventional current use definition (past 30-day use) is already useless (lots of experimenters), but for Australia is includes LESS than monthly users! Unbelievable.\u201d&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>ARTICLE LINK:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetofthevapes.co.uk\/news\/vaping-news\/2020-07-28_australian-data-distortion.html\">Australian Data Distortion<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/dot.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Reddit\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"VAPING%20NEWS%3A%20AUSTRALIA%20%5BSurvey%20Distorts%20%27User%27%20Data%20By%20Including%20Rarely%20Used%20Experimenters%5D\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;\u201cUnbelievable political games\u201d are being played in the latest Australian National Survey 2019. 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