Forbes Media Chairman and Editor-in-Chief Steve Forbes blasted the FDA for treating vaping products in the same way as deadly combustible tobacco products.

Forbes emphasizes that while tobacco and vaping products share the common factor of containing nicotine, so both are addictive, the former is lethal, while the latter is not. In part of What's Ahead, he highlights the fact that all the ingredients that make cigarettes deadly, such as tar, are not found in e-cigarettes.

The editor-in-chief went on to mention countries such as the UK, where these products are highly recommended for smoking cessation and advertised as more effective than nicotine patches, gum and lozenges. He highlighted the fact that anti-vaping entities have been concerned about the fact that youth vaping rates have increased over the past decade. However, they ignored the fact that this increase led to a decline in teen smoking.

Misinformation about e-cigarettes is harming public health

Forbes goes on to emphasize that the spread of this misinformation is doing enormous damage to public health. In line with this argument, a new study published in BMC Public Health examined data from the U.S. PATH survey (2014-2019) and found that misconceptions about the risks of vaping are still on the rise. Despite all the scientific evidence for the relative safety of the product, sadly, in 2019, 83% of US smokers incorrectly believed that e-cigarettes were as harmful as smoking, or even more harmful.

Not surprisingly, smokers with these inaccurate beliefs about e-cigarettes are less likely to try and/or switch to these products and continue smoking. While smokers who correctly knew the product was safer were 134% more likely to try e-cigarettes, 127% more likely to quit smoking, less likely to use both e-cigarettes and cigarettes, and less likely to smoke again.

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