| 来源类型 | Testimony
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| 规范类型 | 其他
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| Testimony | Putting teen vaping in perspective: Balancing protection of youth with health of smokers |
| Sally Satel
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| 发表日期 | 2019-10-16
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| 出版年 | 2019
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | I am grateful to Chairwoman Rosa DeLauro, Ranking Member Tom Cole, and members of the subcommittee for inviting me to offer my view on this vital public health issue.
I am a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a lecturer at Yale University School of Medicine. My medical expertise is in addiction psychiatry. I also serve on the current National Advisory Board of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. I have worked part time in mental health and methadone clinics in the District. I spent last year in Rust Belt Appalachia (southeastern Ohio) studying the opioid crisis.
Today, I would like to comment on electronic cigarettes and commercial nicotine vaping in the context of two recent developments. The first is the rash of about 1,300 cases of lung injuries and 26 deaths (as of October 11) linked to vaping. The second development is the imposition of non-tobacco flavor bans on e-cigarettes and vaping products. The facts show that the bans would do nothing address the lung injuries and deaths.
I want to emphasize the crucial importance of distinguishing between the cannabis-related products responsible for causing pulmonary illnesses and deaths from nicotine-containing commercial vaping products, which have not been identified as the source.
I also highlight the serious unintended consequences imposed upon adult vapers by flavor bans that are aimed at discouraging teen use.
Without question, we must reduce teen vaping but other, non-prohibitionist solutions can help achieve that imperative. We must not impede vital access to vaping products for the 11-14 million adult vapers who might otherwise smoke instead or for the 38 million smokers who could switch to vaping if they cannot quit smoking by other means. |
| 标签 | electronic cigarettes
; health policy
; vaping
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| URL | https://www.aei.org/research-products/testimony/testimony-putting-teen-vaping-in-perspective-balancing-protection-of-youth-with-health-of-smokers/
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| 来源智库 | American Enterprise Institute (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/209919
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Sally Satel. Testimony | Putting teen vaping in perspective: Balancing protection of youth with health of smokers. 2019.
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