TARGETING TEEN VAPING EPIDEMIC: In an advisory Tuesday, Surgeon General Jerome Adams said parents, teachers, health professionals and government officials must take "aggressive steps" to keep children from using e-cigarettes ... Federal officials are scrambling to reverse a recent explosion in teen vaping that public health officials fear could undermine decades of declines in tobacco use. An estimated 3.6 million U.S. teens are now using e-cigarettes, according to the latest government statistics.
In an op-ed on FoxNews.com, Dr. Marc Siegel explains what should be done to address the growing teen vaping epidemic. He writes, "Studying the long-term health effects of e-cigarettes is clearly one important step. Providing and promoting alternatives without nicotine is another. Treatment options for those with so-called “nicotine use disorder” are limited and need to expand."
"Research must focus on a better understanding of how nicotine affects the brain and what to do about it," he continues. "Addictive personality is a real phenomenon and genetic research can help us determine who is most at risk. Quitting vaping is not the same thing as quitting tobacco smoking, especially since e-cigarettes are also used as a smoking cessation tool for physicians, myself included, who are trying to wean recalcitrant smokers off tobacco."
- John Stossel: Is vaping e-cigarettes really a health crisis?
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