The FDA has regulation now over e-cigarette products in general,
and that means they're finally getting a good, hard
look at the risks and dangers of these products.
So the FDA told you they could no longer market this product at all.
These e-cigarettes produced by that company, which is also owned
by a big tobacco company, have been shown
to cause youth vaping use.
They've been shown to get kids addicted to nicotine,
and that can create a lifetime habit.
So pediatricians and public health folks
everywhere are rejoicing for this ruling.
There was such a steady reduction of smoking
as people realized how harmful and damaging it was to the lungs.
But with the e-cigarettes,
they were really marketed as something that supposedly was safer.
That is not been shown to be true.
Nicotine is essentially a pesticide
from the tobacco plant, and it's a highly addictive pesticide.
So these products are actually getting people to be dependent
on this noxious pesticide
that is one of the most addictive compounds. No.
One of the other points the FDA made is that the flavorings and additives
that these compounds are also not safe
and the flavored products are the way that youth have been suckered in.
I mean, CIGARETS taste terrible.
You know, they they're they
they're not the kind of thing that youth are keen to do.
But when you make what Juul did was creme brulee flavored
nicotine, that's how they sold their products.
Well, a lot of the chemical additives there are known carcinogens
and are getting deposited into the lungs and may not even come out.
I expect the FDA to look more broadly
at other e-cigarette companies and e inhalation companies
that use these kind of flavoring products
and mechanisms to get young people
to be dependent on their products.
And that's what we can look forward to.
A second point is that the rise in e-cigarette use
has come along with COVID.
So precisely the time when we need to protect our lungs with this viral process,
we're having this new increase in vaping use,
which essentially kills the little villa and so on, that clean
the lung from products and instead are depositing oily gunk
right into your lungs where we don't have good ways to get it out.
The use of e-cigarettes can also harm brain development.
It's been shown to impact memory and behavior.
It has cancer causing ingredients,
and it actually alters the pathway of the developing brain
in a way that can promote addiction and dependency later on.
So no parent would want this for their kid.
And adults should be thinking hard about this product as well.
So unfortunately, pediatricians are seeing more kids
who have a real dependency
to e-cigarettes to the point where they can't go to school without it.
It's being done in the bathrooms.
It truly is a dependency.
I'm encourage parents to be knowledgeable,
to be able to recognize and identify these products.
So if you see them, you know what they are.
Second, see your pediatrician.
There is now a nicotine therapy that some kids have
needed to be able to break this addiction
and just know that almost every child who starts using these products
in a daily fashion,
they they are still users today.
That's how powerful the dependency is.
So if your child is using this on a regular basis,
even once a day, that kid is going to go on to use this.
And many of those kids convert to cigaret use later.