{"id":26136,"date":"2023-02-14T15:55:40","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T20:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/?p=26136"},"modified":"2023-02-14T15:55:40","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T20:55:40","slug":"public-health-failure-to-embrace-vaping-harm-reduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/archives\/26136","title":{"rendered":"PUBLIC HEALTH FAILURE TO EMBRACE VAPING HARM REDUCTION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In a two-part Sensible Medicine post, Dr. Satel will argue that <span style=\"color: #ffcc00\"><strong>the use of electronic cigarettes should be welcomed as a disruptive public health innovation<\/strong><\/span>. Electronic cigarettes easily top the list of \u201cdisruptive technologies in public health.\u201d In 2014, the Oxford English Dictionary christened \u201cvape\u201d the Word of the Year, a tribute to the impressive rise of the electronic cigarette, a battery-powered device that heats a flavored solution containing nicotine and converts it into an inhalable, or \u201cvape-able,\u201d aerosol. <span style=\"color: #ffcc00\"><strong>Electronic cigarettes have become the most important tool in the battle against cigarette smoking<\/strong><\/span>. And yet, today, instead of rejoicing at the promise of electronic cigarettes, health agencies have fueled a massive campaign of doubt regarding its health advantages to smokers. <span style=\"color: #ffcc00\"><strong>E-cigarettes are also more effective than nicotine-replacement aids<\/strong><\/span>. In the second part of this post I will discuss the (debunked) claim that vaping poses a \u201cgateway\u201d to smoking for teens, a brief history of the distrust of tobacco harm reduction, the lop-sided risk communication mischaracterizing teen vaping at the expense of informing adults accurately, how anxiety over teens has shaped the FDA\u2019s heavy-handed regulatory approach, smarter approaches deployed in the UK, and how Big Tobacco wins when adult smokers are scared away from vaping.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #00ffff\"><strong>ARTICLE LINK:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/articles\/vaping-the-great-innovation-public-health-failed-to-embrace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vaping: The Great Innovation Public Health Failed to Embrace<\/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=\"PUBLIC%20HEALTH%20FAILURE%20TO%20EMBRACE%20VAPING%20HARM%20REDUCTION\";<\/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;In a two-part Sensible Medicine post, Dr. Satel will argue that the use of electronic cigarettes should be welcomed as a disruptive public health innovation&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent_news","category-vaping-news","wpcat-15-id","wpcat-147-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26136"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26138,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26136\/revisions\/26138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}