Re:CDC Confirms a THC Additive, Vitamin E Acetate, Is Culpri...
by gruez on Friday December 20, 2019 @11:54PM
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>This is bullshit think of the children scaremongering. Even among teens smoking rates are dropping.
Yeah, but your source also says that vaping rates are up, outstripping any decreases in smoking rates.
>It showed that 27.5% of high schoolers had vaped in the past 30 days in 2019, up from 20.8% the year before. Meanwhile, teen cigarette-smoking rates dropped from 8.1% to 5.8% in the same time period.
This seems to support what the parent post is saying:
> E.g. instead of fewer people having very expensive cancer care, vaping could still cause some damage and incur costs across more people.
Yeah, but your source also says that vaping rates are up, outstripping any decreases in smoking rates.
>It showed that 27.5% of high schoolers had vaped in the past 30 days in 2019, up from 20.8% the year before. Meanwhile, teen cigarette-smoking rates dropped from 8.1% to 5.8% in the same time period.
This seems to support what the parent post is saying:
> E.g. instead of fewer people having very expensive cancer care, vaping could still cause some damage and incur costs across more people.