
The surgeon general’s report on e-cigarettes is surprisingly mild.
SlateOn Jan. 11, 1964, Dr. Luther Terry released the first report of the Surgeon General’s Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health. So, when it was announced that current Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy was to unveil the first-ever report from the Office of the Surgeon General on e-cigarette use among youth and young adults, I anticipated a compendium of data that could deliver a welcome and possibly fatal blow to the flourishing nontraditional nicotine industry. Currently, the surgeon general’s report acknowledges that there is inadequate data “to infer the presence or absence of a causal relationship between exposure to nicotine and risk for cancer.” Data cited in the report even suggests that, in adults, nicotine might help people with their attention spans. The surgeon general’s report concludes that the data supporting the notion that e-cigarettes might help with smoking cessation is “extremely weak.” But honestly, so is much of the data cited elsewhere in the document that implies harm from e-cigarettes.
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