The AMA Calls For Total and Immediate Vaping Ban

What the health association intends to do with the millions of teenagers that are already hooked on vaping is unclear

Monday, December 2, 2019 - The American Medical Association made the most definitive statement possible today when the organization called for the total and immediate ban on all e-cigarette and vaping products. The dramatic policy statement is in response to the epidemic of vape-related lung illnesses and deaths that have presented themselves in recent weeks. The LA Times quoted the latest government statistics made public. "The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has linked vaping to 1,479 cases of mysterious lung disease over the last six months. At least 33 people have died since the outbreak began." Those numbers have since increased to 2100 and 42 respectively. Just last month a teenager was admitted to a hospital's intensive care unit with, as one surgeon put it, the lungs of an 80-year old man and required an immediate double lung transplant to save the young vaper's life. The AMA's crystal clear policy statement is in contrast to the Trump Administration's hemming and hawing on whether or not ban only e-cigarette flavor pods to make vaping less enjoyable for teenagers. The AMA rightfully acknowledges that hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, of high school and middle school underage youngsters have taken up the vaping habit having been persuaded by slick social media advertising by Juul Inc. the leader in the e-cigarette market deliberately targeted at them. From Juul's inception up until just a couple of months ago, Juul would pay social media influencers and other online personalities a commission based on the internet traffic they referred with an affiliate link to Juul's website. Other independent vape flavor pod manufacturers continue to due the same. Youngsters have become addicted to the nicotine in e-cigarettes. One vape flavor pouch has the same amount of nicotine as an entire pack of combustible cigarettes. ABC News quotes the President of the AMA, Dr. Patrice Harris as saying when asked the reason for the AMA's sharp stance: "It's simple, we must keep nicotine products out of the hands of young people." JUUL Vape pen lawsuits are represented by top national attorneys and offer a free consultation with no obligation to file a claim.

Critics of the AMA's position of promoting a total ban on all e-cigarette and vaping products contend that such a maneuver has little possibility of achieving its goals and that banning e-cigarettes would drive teenagers and also adults that legitimately use vape products to wean themselves from combustible cigarettes, to pick up or return to the cigarette smoking habit. In all reality, the AMA is just covering the bases so it can look back when the epidemic reaches catastrophic proportions and say we told you so. ABC News quotes Gregory Conley, president of the American Vaping Association as saying "the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has made clear that its focus is not store-bought nicotine vaping products, but illicit contaminated THC oil cartridges sold by drug dealers, and that it would be a mistake for adult smokers and their families to listen to these misguided prohibitionists, as the evidence continues to indicate that adult smokers who switch to nicotine vaping products greatly improve their health.

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