- The risks of vaping. Electronic cigarettes without nicotine are also harmful to health
- In the U.S. Five dead linked to electronic cigarettes
The use of electronic cigarettes with flavors in the United States, an increasingly widespread reality among millions of teenagers in the country, can begin to have the days counted. The White House announced Wednesday that it is finalizing the details of a plan to prohibit its sale, a measure that is generating great controversy because even experts do not agree on its possible harmful effects on health.
"We have a new problem in this country called 'vaping' , especially among innocent children. It is causing a lot of problems and we will have to do something about it," Trump announced after meeting at the Oval Office with the secretary of Cheers, Alex Azar. and with the acting director of the Medicines Agency (FDA), Norman Sharpless, to design the strategy of his administration against electronic cigarettes.
The Secretary of Health said later that the Government is finalizing the details of a new regulation to "clean" electronic cigarettes from the market and justified it by ensuring that it has become a serious "epidemic" among teenagers. The plan is expected to come into effect within a month and the goal of the authorities is to veto its sale as long as its use by the Medicines Agency is not approved.
This crusade against "vaping" comes after the same week confirmed the death of six people from lung diseases related to the alleged use of electronic cigarettes in cases spread across California, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Oregon and Kansas. In addition, Michigan became on September 4 the first state in the country to ban its sale.
What nobody doubts at this point is that the use of electronic cigarettes is increasingly widespread among teenagers in the United States. According to the most recent official statistics, one in four high school students across the country admitted to having "vaped" sometime in the last thirty days, which represents an increase of 20 percent over the previous year.
Trump acknowledged Wednesday that "vaping" has become a "giant business" in a very short time and said that although many people still believe that smoking electronic cigarettes is a good thing or that it can help you quit conventional tobacco, in reality it is not. "We cannot allow people to continue to fall ill and we cannot allow them to affect our young people so much," he said.
Generally in a discreet background, the first lady, Melania Trump, who has a 13-year-old son and who this week said she is "deeply concerned" about the "epidemic" of vaping in the US has also said. "We have to do something to prevent electronic cigarettes from becoming a platform for a generation of young people to get addicted to nicotine," he said on his Twitter account.
In recent months there have been an increase in cases of people who go to hospitals with respiratory problems related to the alleged use of electronic cigarettes. A new study published in The New England Journal of Medicine was able to identify a hitherto unknown feature of respiratory disease linked to "vaping", but experts fail to agree
because its effects are not yet well known.
Evidently the debate is served and there are already many voices that have come out to criticize the new plans announced by the White House. "Trump says that electronic flavored cigarettes are going to be banned because they have killed six people. I imagine that the next step will be to manufacture fun flavored weapons to see if they do anything about it," said actress Bette Midler on Twitter.
From the American Vaping Association (AVA), they regretted the new plans and warned that this veto will not only stop people who want to quit without an alternative but will help create a black market around them. "The ban has never worked. It did not work with alcohol, it is not working with marijuana and it will not work with electronic cigarettes either," lamented its president, Greg Conley.
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