In the December edition of the highly prestigious academic Journal, Science, the Dean of the College of Public Health at Ohio State University gives a clear warning against overreacting against vaping by instituting prohibitionist policies to deter youth adoption, but at the peril of derailing adult use, citing the clear public health benefits to adults using this technology to replace cigarette smoking.
"As we move to confront these challenges, we face the danger that justifiable alarm will turn alarmist, short-circuiting careful analysis of the full range of evidence and focusing attention on the most frightening, thus enhancing the prospect of adopting counterproductive policy. We suggest that the evidence warns against prohibitionist measures. Restricting access and appeal among less harmful vaping products out of an abundance of caution while leaving deadly combustible products on the market does not protect public health. It threatens to derail a trend that could hasten the demise of cigarettes, poised to take a billion lives this century."
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