UK Lesson: Promoting e-cigarettes opens the door to disastrous nicotine addictions
Stanton Glantz, retired US professor from UCSF, posted a blog message on June 27 titled: “More evidence that England’s (and Canada and US FDA) enthusiastic approach to e-cigarettes is a disaster” and states, “In April 2023, David Hammond and colleagues published trends in high school use of e-cigarettes, cigarettes and other tobacco products in three e-cigarette-countries with policies to promote adult use of e-cigarettes for harm reduction: England, Canada and the US… England, which most enthusiastically promotes e-cigarettes, has by far the worst results. By 2022, current e-cigarette use was 50% higher than in the US and Canada, with the highest heavy use (20+ days/month) of all three countries.” See David Hammond’s full report at: Hammond D, Reid Jl, Burkhalter R, Hong D. Trends in Smoking and Vaping Among Young People: Findings from the ITC Youth Surveys. April 2023; University of Waterloo.
Comment: Glantz comments: For comparison, e-cigarette use in Brazil, where e-cigarettes are illegal, was 2.8% for youth age 13-17 in 2019.
See Graph below:
https://profglantz.com/2023/06/27/more-evidence-that-englands-and-canada-and-us-fda-enthusiastic-approach-to-e-cigarettes-is-a-disaster/
Stephen Hamann
