Kids deserve freedom to see the truth of this life…better than they do. That includes the freedom from brainwashing when it comes to ideas OR products. That’s why it’s in principle…especially wrong to sell e-cigarettes, or regular cigarettes to children of any age.
All smoking products are
already subject to the authority and control of the FDA. They are now putting
final touches to enhanced protections including the use of e-cigarettes,
hookahs and some or all cigars. A minimum age for purchase of e-cigarettes
exists already in several states.
“In today’s rapidly evolving
tobacco marketplace, the surge in youth use of novel products like e-cigarettes
forces us to confront the reality that the progress we have made in reducing
youth cigarette smoking rates is being threatened,” said Mitch Zeller, J.D.,
director of FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products.
“These staggering increases in such
a short time underscore why FDA intends to regulate these additional products
to protect public health.”
Zeller concludes
that discouraging smoking among youngsters is possible through
the tighter regulation of the production and sale of tobacco
items together with implementing already proven methods for
control.
These have included higher funding
of tobacco control programs at CDC-recommended levels, further increasing the
prices of any smoking related products, tougher enforcement of already
instituted smoke-free laws, and continuing with already-successful
media campaigns.
Because the use of e-cigarettes and
hookahs is already growing among teens and preteens, it is critical that
these moves refer to all smoking related materials without exception.
The National Youth Tobacco Survey
(NYTS) is a school-based, self-administered survey offered yearly to
junior and senior high school children in public and private schools. 22
thousand students were reached this way in 2014.
http://www.fda.gov/TobaccoProducts/PublicHealthEducation/ProtectingKidsfromTobacco/ucm405173.htm
A few years back
in 2012, the Surgeon General’s Report found that about nine out
of ten all smokers first started smoking as teens and that about 75% of
them continue into adulthood. More information regarding the crisis of
smoking among our youth is available at the web
addresses cited below. And of course you can read more articles I
have collected here on this site.
http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/reports/preventing-youth-tobacco-use/
27 states since November 2014 have instituted comprehensive smoke-free laws that forbid workplace, bar and eatery smoking, but only three states have restricted the electronic nicotine delivery systems for indoor use: and these are Utah, New Jersey and North Dakota.
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6349a1.htm#Tab
Kids deserve freedom to breathe and eventually the freedom to choose. These measures are going to serve such ends but more adult and community cooperation is needed and especially any help former smokers can offer them.
Averayugen@mail.com
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