E-Cigarettes Popular With Children !

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-32117019

This falls into the "b l e e d i n g obvious" category as far I am concerned !

We have debated these daft things on AB before, and I made the point then that they would be popular amongst children, especially when you consider the flavours that are available.....bubble gum for instance. This new evidence seems to suggest that children are being drawn into using them.

Well, surprise, surprise !

[ummmm]

Better than cigarettes though.

[EDDIE51]

Rather they try ecigs than the real thing. 14 to 17 years old is just the age that people start smoking. At least this is less damaging than tobacco.

[sandyRoe]

They'd help develop a nicotine addiction and break down the inhibitions about inhaling. If the 'juice' wasn't available a user might use real cigarettes to get their fix.
They're not a good idea.

[mikey4444]

Sandy....I got into trouble for saying this next bit yesterday, but.....plain common sense !

The manufactures of these things are mainly tobacco companies. If people think that children are going to start by trying bubble gum flavour and not go on to try the nicotine ones, than they have their heads in the sand.

[EDDIE51]

They all contain nicotine Mikey even the bubblegum flavour ones.

[mikey4444]

I didn't know that Eddie...are you sure ? I thought that some only had flavourings, without the nicotine ?

[ummmm]

But they don't contain all the really harmful stuff like tar and arsenic.

[ummmm]

I think you can get 0 nicotine ones.

[EDDIE51]

Yes thinking about it they come in diffrent strengths of nicotine. To give up smoking you start high and come down. So there will be some with no nicotine. Most of them do have nicotine though even the fruit flavour ones.

[EDDIE51]

Here you go 'Candy Apple' e liquid , 20mg to 0mg Nicotine
http://www.juiceshop.co.uk/juice/product/new-apple-candy-e-liquid/

[Gromit]

Yep.
I know someone who now smokes after she started on e-cigs. Potty idea.

[ummmm]

I bet they are few and far between, Gromit.

[EDDIE51]

I have to say I can see little point in the fruit and sweet flavour ones other than to attract people who would not smoke tobacco. They seem to be diverging from the original idea of helping people stop smoking.

[youngmafbog]

//Questionnaires completed by 16,193 14 to 17-year-olds, published in BMC Public Health, showed one in five had tried or bought e-cigarettes.//

Tried or bought.

The figures we need are:

1. Those now addicted
2. Those now regularly using them
3. Those who started on it and now smoke real fags.

Tried and bought means nothing.

[hc4361]

Some of the ecigs are really blingy and very attractive to teens. That really is unnecssary