As a statistician, I can not for sure say that the rise in smokers is a direct result of the electronic cigarette ban. However, it does make me think of why there is a sudden rise of smoking in the last four years. Smoking being “cool” has been beaten to death in grade school. Most kids now know smoking kills and is not something they want to explore even. Furthermore, it’s not like kids can go out and buy a pack of cigarettes with ease at the convenient store either. Blaming the kids and young smokers just does not make sense anymore. Smokers who want to smoke know the risks and know the diseases associated with smoking. They either do not care or rather find that given their age it is too late for them. Why not instead target this demographic of current older smokers than the younger crowd. I understand this is a new tactic, but the old one is obviously not working.

But here is why that knee-jerk reflex that CTFK exhibits any time a tax increase is discussed is short-sighted and premature.

"The challenge that the FDA has is that they will be challenged by the tobacco industry, as they have been at every step of the way. [The FDA] tried to regulate e-cigarettes earlier, and they lost to the tobacco industry. … So the FDA has to balance moving quickly with moving in a way that’s going to be able to survive the tobacco industry’s highly paid legal challenge."

The study concludes that "e-cigarette use is aggravating rather than ameliorating the tobacco epidemic among youths."

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Why? Because the study does not examine the rate of successful smoking cessation among electronic cigarette users who want to quit smoking or cut down substantially on the amount that they smoke and who are using e-cigarettes in an attempt to accomplish this.

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