vaping

On the issue of vaping, it is quite easy to make either advocates or critics angry. What is difficult is to anger both simultaneously. Yet, the Trump Administration has found a way to do just that.

#This article is reprinted with permission of the author and the Cato Institute. The original blog post can be found here. 

I bought my first electronic cigarette (e-cigarette, e-cig) in 2012. After a month of smoking and using an e-cig (vaping), I finished off my last pack of Camels and gave up tobacco forever.

It hasn't been a good year for U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams.

Using nicotine habitually is a bad idea. It is worse when delivered by combustion, with fewer health consequences when vaporized. We have always said that vaping nicotine is a gateway or path to smoking cessation.

Dr. Jeffrey Singer's piece originally appeared on the Cato Institute website. It is being reprinted with permission. 

US drug policy is just plain nuts.

Our Northern neighbor, Canada, has faced the same problem with the use of e-cigarettes among teenagers, banning their sale on a provincial basis between 2015 to 2017 and nationally in May 2018.

The CDC just issued a report, providing more information about what has been killing and hospitalizing people who vape. It's pretty much what we were saying last month.

The popular press regularly botches its science reporting.