Lan Cave New Consumer Report, on December 3rd, according to foreign news reports, in the most stupid anti -electronic cigarette story ever, the Guardian just reported that a parent cigarette for his teenage to help him quit smoking. There are too many errors here.

Jason is a general doctor in Australia. He used to treat smoking addiction patients in the past, but he did not know how to help his 14 -year -old son quit electronic cigarettes.

His son developed this habit at the age of 12. At that time, he was also the same age when he was arrested for stealing e -cigarettes containing nicotine from convenience stores. He carefully escaped the punishment, but the New South Wales police did not condemn the owners of illegal sales of nicotine electronic cigarette products.

Jason finally reported to the store of New South Wales, which raid the store and confiscated illegal electronic cigarettes worth $ 10,000.

"I tried to talk to my son and warned the influence of electronic cigarettes and nicotine on health. I tried and shouted to stop him with all similar things." Jason said.

"This is not possible, because nicotine is easily addicted. We try to give him nicotine gum, but this is a waste of time, because the nicotine content in gum is very small compared to the nicotine content you get from the electronic cigarette. There is no effect on smoking addiction. "

Jason gave his son two cigarettes to replace the electronic cigarette every day. He knew that tobacco was harmful and brought serious health consequences, but when the light people came to them and said that when they were addicted to electronic cigarettes, he faced many healthy practitioners and parents' common dilemma.

How can you help a teenager -or younger people -adding smoking to a large number of nicotine transported through electronic cigarettes? This is a relatively new phenomenon. From 2016 to 2019, Australia's adolescents suck electronic smoke. Doctors, teachers, and psychologists who talked to the Australian Guardian said that according to rumors, the number of adolescent electronic smoke rates have risen particularly fast in the past 12 months.

"Children smoke electronic cigarettes every day may be equivalent to the amount of nicotine contained in three or four packs of cigarettes." Jason said. "It's not easy to quit the electronic cigarette."

On Wednesday, Federal Health Minister Mark Butler announced that he would start public consultation on electronic cigarette reform. He said that this was necessary to solve the rise in youth electronic cigarettes.

Possible reforms include prohibiting imports of all electronic cigarette products (whether they contain nicotine), non -decorative packaging methods that are suitable for tobacco, and seasoning electronic cigarettes that are not attractive to children.

"We are facing very severe challenges now," Bartler said.

"Parents know that electronic cigarettes are selling in our community. There are pink unicorn and bubble sugar flavors on the electronic cigarettes. These people are not mysterious when they are promoted ... not only young people, but also in some cases, but also include the year. Children. "

Even if it is marked as an electronic cigarette product that does not contain nicotine or the ingredient list, it is likely to contain nicotine. The manufacturer does this to bypass the legislation of importing and selling nicotine electronic cigarette products without prescription.

A spokesman for a health regulatory agency Therapeutic Goods Administration told the Australian Council that "all electronic cigarette products seized by TGA based on the arrest warrant were found to contain nicotine."

Dr. Moya Vandeleur, a pediatric breathing and sleeping doctor at the Royal Children's Hospital of Melbourne, said that in addition to the direct and short -term effects of nicotine, such as throat stimulation, blood pressure and rising heart rate, and cough, "we are also very worried about the long -term impact of nicotine addiction on young people." , Especially considering that the child's brain continues to develop before the age of 25.

"Known with side effects of cardiovascular, such as hypertension. Known has an impact on neural cognition and emotion," she said.

"But we don't know which other chemicals inhaled. We are worried that similar to Tobacco. In the long run, these products may be related to oral cancer and lung cancer, but because their existence is not as good as tobacco, there is no long -term data. "

She said that children and adolescents who are addicted to Nicotine's addiction can call the hotline of quitting smoking, talk to their general doctors, or refer to psychologists. Vandeleur has been working with Quit Victoria to develop resources for general doctors and help train them to talk to young people about electronic cigarettes.

Dr. Sarah Arachchi, an ordinary pediatrician working in Melbourne, said that she was worried that electronic cigarette addiction would confuse some children's development and learning difficulties.

"This will increase behavior problems, because if children cannot touch electronic cigarettes, they will become anxious. Addiction to electronic cigarettes will exacerbate the problem of family and schools difficulty and interpersonal relationships." She said.

"I have also seen the children's sucking electronic cigarettes that cause asthma. I have also seen that the children have symptoms such as cough and chest pain after starting electronic cigarettes."

"Some parents also have an attitude. This is just an electronic cigarette. At least not as bad as cigarettes, so we really need to provide better information for caregivers."

Melbourne's parents Justin said she knew the harm of electronic cigarettes. When her 17 -year -old son began to suck electronic cigarette at the age of 12, she was shocked. Her 14 -year -old daughter is now inhaling electronic cigarettes.

She said that her son became irritable, nose and cough, and sometimes respiratory infections. "When he quit the electronic cigarette, he will sleep early and sleep well." She said. "But on the electronic cigarette, he stayed up late and couldn't get up to school, and his skin, bladder and intestine also had papasus."

When he tried to quit smoking, he began to speak well, and once even pushed her, because she didn't tell him where he hid his electronic smoke.

"This is not the case when he is clean." Justin said. "My daughter is a completely different child, and now she also sucks electronic cigarettes. She was absent from class because of her tiredness of sleep cycle disorders, and she abandoned her class because she often went to the toilet to smoke electronic cigarettes."

Justin said that her two children were academic leaders before they started to suck in electronic cigarettes and have fun and abstinence symptoms. Her son was eventually fired by a private school because of this habit, although his previous grades ranked among the top 10%among the students.

"He also uses Snapchat to transport electronic cigarettes and drugs, and their delivery speed is faster than Uber Eats. You can send most things to your house in 15 minutes. This year, my son uses a product, which contains it. 3,500, equivalent to 12 packs of cigarettes. It didn't even let him stick to it for a week. "

She said her children also easily purchased electronic cigarettes on the counter of service stations, electronic cigarette shops and tobacco vendors.

"No one is worried about identity documents, or if they do this, the fake ID market will flourish," she said. "Older users have become suppliers of young children with addictive children in the school -actually dealers."

Justin said that although she stood beside the child and tried to talk to them with publicly, she felt that she was very failed.

"I now watch them harm their health and completely change their education and life trajectory. Their relationship with me has been affected," she said.

Cameron, director of biological sciences of the American Science and Health Commission, commented on this:

There is no doubt that you see an obvious question here: it is ridiculous to suck carcinogenic cigarettes for young people. But let's take a look at the disturbing logic of this anti -electronic cigarette intervention. This story tragically illustrates why the tobacco policy of so many countries has been broken.

First, electronic cigarettes should be regarded as a tool for quitting smoking. This view is common among smoking quit, including myself. However, even researchers who criticized electronic cigarettes acknowledged that the seasoning nicotine used in these devices was very attractive to adult smokers who wanted to quit smoking. In addition, a large amount of evidence (summary of the highly respected COCHRANE collaborative organization in November) provides high definition evidence, proves that electronic cigarettes quit smoking more effectively than standard nicotine replacement therapy (gum, patch, etc.).

Therefore, Jason's method is backward, and it is seriously contradictory with existing evidence. He is using a very harmful product to break his son's dependence on a safer product. As a general doctor who had treated smoking addiction, the doctor should know that he should not smoke his child. However, he is not alone.

As we collect more data on the safety and effectiveness of electronic cigarettes, the public's views on electronic cigarettes are becoming more and more distorted -based on recently published a research on Jama open network magazines, they believe that they are as harmful as cigarettes as cigarettes as cigarettes. Or more harmful.

This distortion of electronic cigarettes is driven by public health institutions and journalists, and they have been misleading consumers' relative risks about electronic cigarettes and smoking. Remember the Evali epidemic in 2019? The Center for Disease Prevention and Control and the United States media are promoting electronic cigarettes that have caused severe lung damage, causing 2,000 people to be hospitalized, of which 68 people die. In fact, these tragic cases are caused by black markets containing vitamin E acetate. These devices are used to absorb THC or CBD, which are chemicals found in marijuana.

The victims of this anti -electronic cigarette information were not just a pair of father and his son. In recent years, people generally believe that the risk of electronic cigarettes has increased smoking. According to a study in July 2022:

... From 2019 to 2020, among people who think that electronic cigarettes are more harmful, the number of traditional cigarettes has almost doubled, from 8.4% in 2019 to 16.3% in 2020 ... Since electronic cigarettes Entering the US market in 2006, public health experts questioned the manufacturer's claims as a tool to reduce harm to help traditional cigarette smokers quit smoking quit.

The good news is that a large number of doctors of different majors have begun to give up the anti -electronic cigarette dogma promoted by Tobacco Control Activists; these doctors are actually recommending electronic smoke to smoking smoking as a smoking quitting tool. It is hoped that one -on -one interaction can offset some of the publicity of electronic cigarettes that permeate the public discussion.

The more direct question we need to answer is proposed by the Guardian: how do you help a teenager ... addicted to a large number of nicotine ... quit smoking? The solution is complicated, but we must first understand and solve the reasons for the use of nicotine.

According to a review in 2016, there are about 98 predictions of tobacco consumption in minors. Most of these variables affect the behavior of individuals or families of adolescents or their families; few predictive factors are related to the taste of electronic cigarettes.

Federal regulatory agencies and anti -smoke organizations have invested most of resources to limit the acquisition of seasoning nicotine products. These people have a lot of common points with drunk men who only find the key under the street light:

When the police saw a drunk man looking for something under the street light, he asked the drunk man what he lost. He said he lost the key and they watched it under the street lights. A few minutes later, the police asked him if he was sure he left them here, and the drunk man replied, no, he was thrown in the park. The police asked him why he was looking for here, and the drunk man replied: There is a lamp here.

As long as this mentality dominates the tobacco control policy, the widespread confusion of electronic cigarettes may continue to exist.