E-cigarettes: Many teenagers trying them, survey concludes

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Really kids will be kids and there's far worse evils out there than even stinkies - hard drugs; online porn; some of the video games they play; over load of screen time?

Tis anti nonsense. I 'aint worried!

[GunJack]

Mar 31, 2015 10:31:25 GMT chykensa said:

My best mate's two kids aged 18 and 16 have both smoked (or dabbled with it!), and he and his wife now encourage them both to vape instead of smoke. I was given some zero-nic juice a couple of weeks ago, and passed it on to them as they use this exclusively. Even the younger child, a boy, admits that he's tried 6mg juice but finds it 'too strong', and is quite happy sitting with us chatting about cars and vans while puffing away on an Evod of 0 nic.
The boy in particular was smoking around 10 rollies a day, but now prefers vaping because there are so many great flavours to try.
Surely this is not the exception, but rather the rule? My daughter has from time to time mentioned vaping as a safer alternative to tobacco to use while hanging around with her friends, but no that many of those are vaping this desire to 'conform' has diminished and she no longer mentions it; this is in part due to the fact that her boyfriend now vapes instead of smoking as a step to giving up altogether when he joins the Army later this year.

similar with Mini-Gun#1, found him smoking so moved him to vaping.... trouble is now I have to guard my RY4

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Mar 31, 2015 9:38:40 GMT ceedee said:

Clive Bates has already comprehensively ripped apart the news reporting and the survey itself: Alarmist survey on teenage vaping misses the point

The problem is that this response it not being reported.

The survey itself is fine - it is the selective reporting that is so bad. But it does trigger one of the two buttons that the media just can't resist.

1)Terrorism
2) Think of the children

Nick

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[markm]

This is ITV Chris Choi piece on the same study, makes it into a bit of a non story.
Chris has also been retweeting Clive Bates analysis.
www.itv.com/news/2015-03-31/are-teenagers-trying-e-cigarettes-as-a-trendy-novelty/

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better pic than the BBC

[letsavit]

Least the ITV article questions it...

Teenagers will be teenagers, the more they chastise e-cigs like these articles the more desirable they will become as they rebel and experiment with life. As said the same teenagers that have and will try ecigs would and will try smoking too, they do need to bring in the 18+ as I can only assume ecigs are easily to get than fags and although ecigs are a lot safer nicotine is still very addictive, that I do know as I have tested it on myself for 25years....!

[lymmranger]

These "reports" and "studies" are fatally flawed..........

"kids" may well have admitted to trying e-cigs........

but why is the next question

............have you also tried

.............real tobacco?

..............Alcohol?

..............Drugs?

...............etc?

[letsavit]

Apr 1, 2015 18:19:18 GMT lymmranger said:

These "reports" and "studies" are fatally flawed..........

"kids" may well have admitted to trying e-cigs........

but why is the next question

............have you also tried

.............real tobacco?

..............Alcohol?

..............Drugs?

...............etc?

Yes they should of done a list of what had tried by 16, ecigs if they was about would been on about page 5, maybe not even on the list, they're safe and boring...

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They are getting desperate now, another cog in the political plan to turn the masses against Vaping so as the suits can reclaim the cash they have lost, because face it, neither big business or our fleecing politicians are not going to let a nice little earner pass them by.

Where in history have any of them had the interests of the general public at heart? Honestly !