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Full article:
https://filtermag.org/vaping-coronavirus-prohibition/amp/
Researchers at Stanford University and the University of California, San Francisco just published a study in the Journal of Adolescent Health: “Association Between Youth Smoking, Electronic Cigarette Use, and Coronavirus Disease 2019.”
Political capital was sought instantly.
According to the study, “The findings from a national sample of adolescents and young adults show that electronic cigarette use and dual use of electronic cigarettes and cigarettes are significant underlying risk factors for coronavirus disease… Being diagnosed with Covid-19 was five times more likely among young people who have used e-cigarettes ever.”
Political capital was sought instantly. On August 11, the day of the study’s release, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL)—described by Time magazine as “the vaping industry’s biggest enemy in DC”—wrote a letter on behalf of a House subcommittee to FDA Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn. It called for the agency to “clear the market of all e-cigarettes, temporarily, for the duration of the coronavirus crisis.”
Rep. Krishnamoorthi stated, “The youth vaping epidemic is colliding with the pandemic to create a very dangerous situation…we have a real public health emergency on our hands.” The loaded words in his statement are classic drug-panic language.
One of the study’s authors, Dr. Bonnie Halpern-Felsher, is a leadinganti-vaping activist and the creator of the Tobacco Prevention ToolKit for teens—which could take first prize for lies of omission about vaping. Her own words fueled new fear: “Teens and young adults need to know that if you use e-cigarettes, you are likely at immediate risk of COVID-19 because you are damaging your lungs.”
Really, immediate risk? There is no evidence to back up that assertion, but what was immediate was the call for a federal ban on e-cigarettes. The media, which has never met a drug panic it didn’t like—Get those clicks!—began to blast out frightening headlines like, “Vaping linked to higher risk of COVID-19 in teens and young adults, study finds. Young people who vaped were five to seven times more likely to be diagnosed.”
https://filtermag.org/vaping-coronavirus-prohibition/amp/
Researchers at Stanford University and the University of California, San Francisco just published a study in the Journal of Adolescent Health: “Association Between Youth Smoking, Electronic Cigarette Use, and Coronavirus Disease 2019.”
Political capital was sought instantly.
According to the study, “The findings from a national sample of adolescents and young adults show that electronic cigarette use and dual use of electronic cigarettes and cigarettes are significant underlying risk factors for coronavirus disease… Being diagnosed with Covid-19 was five times more likely among young people who have used e-cigarettes ever.”
Political capital was sought instantly. On August 11, the day of the study’s release, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL)—described by Time magazine as “the vaping industry’s biggest enemy in DC”—wrote a letter on behalf of a House subcommittee to FDA Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn. It called for the agency to “clear the market of all e-cigarettes, temporarily, for the duration of the coronavirus crisis.”
Rep. Krishnamoorthi stated, “The youth vaping epidemic is colliding with the pandemic to create a very dangerous situation…we have a real public health emergency on our hands.” The loaded words in his statement are classic drug-panic language.
One of the study’s authors, Dr. Bonnie Halpern-Felsher, is a leadinganti-vaping activist and the creator of the Tobacco Prevention ToolKit for teens—which could take first prize for lies of omission about vaping. Her own words fueled new fear: “Teens and young adults need to know that if you use e-cigarettes, you are likely at immediate risk of COVID-19 because you are damaging your lungs.”
Really, immediate risk? There is no evidence to back up that assertion, but what was immediate was the call for a federal ban on e-cigarettes. The media, which has never met a drug panic it didn’t like—Get those clicks!—began to blast out frightening headlines like, “Vaping linked to higher risk of COVID-19 in teens and young adults, study finds. Young people who vaped were five to seven times more likely to be diagnosed.”
