A comprehensive scientific review has identified #varenicline cytisine, and nicotine e-cigarettes as the most effective strategies for #quitting smoking, especially when combined with behavioral support. scienceblog.com/547517/top-3-m…

Thank you Dr Timothy Tolan: Doctors should embrace e-cigarettes as a method of smoking reduction - Las Vegas Sun News lasvegassun.com/news/2024/sep/…

We recently posted about claims that "vaping threatens to undo years of work by public health" and this article is a perfect example. As we showed with the chart in that previous post, there's no evidence to support that claim, but in this The Lund Report article, the

The Real Smokescreen is Nicotine Disinformation - R Street Institute rstreet.org/commentary/the…

"During 2023–2024, current e-cigarette use among middle and high school students declined from 7.7% to 5.9%. Current nicotine pouch use (1.8%) did not change significantly during this period." Time to stop the bans and leave adults alone. cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/7…

1950s-1990s: #BigTobacco lied 2010-2023: #BigTobaccoControl lies (BTC) Teen & young adult smoking has plummeted to record lows. Teen nicotine vaping has plummed 61% to a 10-year low. Teen nicotine use is at a 50-year low. BTC seeks to keep the public alarmed. #MoralPanic

(2/3) Given these objective facts, can you please explain to me what "years of work by public health officials" are being "undone" by nicotine vapes? Is it not more likely they are stoking #MoralPanic to get more grants? Their job security is threatened by good news.

(3/3) As far as I can see, those officials are deliberately hiding good news and trying to divert public attention away from what is happening with adult use. Peer behind the curtain: 480,000 Americans continue to DIE every year from smoking. Is that no longer a priority?

Thanks Lindsey Stroud! Holy crap! Now I need to revise dozens of graphs showing US teen nicotine vaping. 😱 ...DOWN AGAIN! 😁 This CDC report just dropped. Spoiler: In 2019, 21% of teens used nicotine vapes. Now 5.9%, a 10-year low. cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/7…

NEW NUMBERS CDC "Notes from the Field" cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/7… Over the past 5 years: Teen nicotine vaping dropped 72% From 2011-2024: Teen nicotine use dropped >40% #DealWithIt ParentsAgainstVaping Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids Bloomberg Philanthropies

How many US teens are 'addicted' to nicotine vapes? Daily use is a good proxy for dependence onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/… 5.9% of middle and high school students vape nicotine ≥ once in the past 30 days 26.3% of THOSE vape daily = 1.5% (1 in 67) cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/7…

What U.S. FDA says: "Youth E-Cigarette Use Drops to Lowest Level in a Decade" What Senator Dick Durbin says: "Youth e-cigarette use is epidemic." Senator: Someone is misinforming you. DELIBERATELY misinforming you. Stop trusting them. fda.gov/news-events/pr…

2.3% of US High School students are daily ecig users and 0.5% of US HS students are daily nicotine pouch users (7.8% and 2.4% had used these products at least once in the past 30 days). Heading in the right direction. cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/7…

Fewer adolescents are vaping this year than at any point in the last decade, government officials report, pointing to a shrinking number of high school students who are using fruity, unauthorized e-cigarettes. on.nbc10.com/HogCzw8

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Charles A. Gardner, PhD Muckraker 2/2 Meanwhile, as we celebrate those good US youth numbers, I remind everyone that 1300 Americans died today from smoking.

Today's CDC survey findings: 5.9% of teens vape nicotine ≥once/month 26.3% of THOSE vape daily so MAY be 'hooked' = 1.5% 1.8% use nicotine pouches ≥once/month 22.4% of THOSE use pouches daily = 0.4% BEHOLD THE "WHOLE NEW GENERATION ADDICTED" cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/7…

I don't make this stuff up BEHOLD THE TEEN VAPING EPIDEMIC: 2019: 21% cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/6… 2020: 15% cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/6… 2021: PANDEMIC LOCKDOWN 2022: 11% cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/7… 2023: 7.7% cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/7… 2024: 5.9% cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/7…

Why are non-profit organizations funded by Mike Bloomberg claiming that US teen nicotine vaping is "epidemic"? Teen nicotine vaping is down 72% over the past five years. And this is not up for debate. This is what CDC surveys show.

Fact check: Partially true. Walz did try to increase Minnesota's already insanely high 95% wholesale tax on vapes. mprnews.org/story/2021/02/… But Zyn and other tobacco-derived nicotine pouches were already taxed at 95% before Walz took office.