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This webinar on now. Laurie Rubiner of @TobaccoFreeKids believes this is a "teaching moment" and is robotically repeating the CTFK's deceptive talking points about teen vaping and calls for bans on smoking and vaping. Unconnected to COVID-19 - pure cynical opportunism. https://twitter.com/NationalMedAssn/status/1248701058857254913
My first Q.
Why focus on kids? It is overwhelmingly adults and especially older adults with underlying health conditions (including people smoking for decades) that suffer the worst symptoms COVID-19. ... Surely vaping can help older smokers quit smoking and stay quit?
Why focus on kids? It is overwhelmingly adults and especially older adults with underlying health conditions (including people smoking for decades) that suffer the worst symptoms COVID-19. ... Surely vaping can help older smokers quit smoking and stay quit?
My 2nd Q.
What if people are vaping as an alternative to smoking to reduce their risks and relieve their symptoms from smoking-related cardiovascular and respiratory conditions? Is it possible that anti-vaping measures will harm them and put them at greater risk?
What if people are vaping as an alternative to smoking to reduce their risks and relieve their symptoms from smoking-related cardiovascular and respiratory conditions? Is it possible that anti-vaping measures will harm them and put them at greater risk?
The @TobaccoFreeKids rep says they don't know much about older people and there is no data on vaping. I guess that makes her perfectly qualified for a discussion of COVID-19 and anti-vaping policies.
Now the "Truth" person is on. E-cigarette cessation and young people. Nothing at all to say about COVID-19. Nothing about older adults or people with underlying conditions who are the at-risk population. They have their hammer - the kids! - now every problem has to be a nail.
My 3rd Q.
Can we actually discuss the at-risk population: adults with cardiovascular and respiratory conditions? It seems whatever the question, the answer is about kids vaping. Or could the speakers outline evidence showing increased vaping-related COVID-19 risks in adolescents?
Can we actually discuss the at-risk population: adults with cardiovascular and respiratory conditions? It seems whatever the question, the answer is about kids vaping. Or could the speakers outline evidence showing increased vaping-related COVID-19 risks in adolescents?
4th Q
Smokers are strikingly *under-represented* in CDC data for severe respiratory outcomes: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6913e2.htm (Table 1. just 1.3%, vs adult smoking rate 14%). Is it possible nicotine is *protective* against progression to severe symptoms via an ACE2 receptor interaction?
Smokers are strikingly *under-represented* in CDC data for severe respiratory outcomes: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6913e2.htm (Table 1. just 1.3%, vs adult smoking rate 14%). Is it possible nicotine is *protective* against progression to severe symptoms via an ACE2 receptor interaction?
Megan Jacobs of "Truth" (always in quotes) @truthinitiative managed not to say a single word about COVID-19 in her talk. She is on about a Truth youth vaping quitting scheme and seems unaware that vaping is displacing cigarettes - and that is true for adults and teens.
The guest experts here have nothing useful to say about COVID-19 and vaping and know nothing about the data. They are not even experts in the subjects they claim to know about: adolescents and vaping. They're using a COVID-19 pretext to pitch their usual simplistic activist line.
Ends, thankfully. 0 out of my 4 questions made it to the panel. All difficulties ducked, no insights offered, adults ignored - a propaganda operation making expedient use of interest in COVID-19 to repeat the talking points we always hear from @TobaccoFreeKids & @truthinitiative.
