I just read an interesting article that you can read HERE. And a nearly identical article HERE
The bullet point being:
"According to the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) smoking in 2000 was the biggest cause of death - 435,000 people died. 18.1% of everyone who died in that year died of a smoking related disease. Obesity (bad diet and no exercise) was the cause of 400,000 deaths."
New links between caffeine and obesity are being found. THIS article sites a study on that subject.
This is easy to realize when you think of what products you often find caffeine. Coffee, sodas and chocolate, among others. We see kids and young adults consuming these products every day, which is likely to lead to lifetime use. Its kind of ironic that one of the major ingredients in diet supplements (supplements, really?) is caffeine!
Caffeine has become acceptable due only to the vessels in which it is consumed. Nicotine, while possibly more addictive and dose for dose, has only one common method of consumption, tobacco, with the most popular being smoking. Its hard to look at someone drinking a cup a coffee in and think, "Oh look at that addict!". Conversely it is quite easy to say that if you see someone smoking. I'm willing to bet that if nicotine was as prevalent in foods, as with caffeine, we wouldn't be where we are now. Smoking would probably have never become the phenomenon it is, simply due to the range of choices of where to get it.
The fact is they are both addictive, both are at least significant factors in the number 1 and 2 causes of death for Americans, both have similarly beneficial and detrimental side effects. There is one big difference. One of these IS intentionally marketed to, sold to, and consumed by kids and young adults on a daily basis through products in which are regulated by the FDA.
Here are a couple more links that I found interesting.
Caffeine In Colas: "The Real Thing" Isn't The Taste
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11037035
Neurologic Effects of Caffeine: eMedicine Neurology
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tl;dr
We, as a vaping community, all love to post and cite articles and studies, as I have here, and interpret law and speculate on how semantics will or won't affect us. The most important thing we can do, I believe, is try to find a way to break through the preconceived notions about nicotine, smoking, addiction in a way they can relate to. This is an amazingly strong group and we are all very passionate. There has to be some way to convey that passion in a way that it can grow. Just sayin. Happy Vapin'!
The bullet point being:
"According to the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) smoking in 2000 was the biggest cause of death - 435,000 people died. 18.1% of everyone who died in that year died of a smoking related disease. Obesity (bad diet and no exercise) was the cause of 400,000 deaths."
New links between caffeine and obesity are being found. THIS article sites a study on that subject.
This is easy to realize when you think of what products you often find caffeine. Coffee, sodas and chocolate, among others. We see kids and young adults consuming these products every day, which is likely to lead to lifetime use. Its kind of ironic that one of the major ingredients in diet supplements (supplements, really?) is caffeine!
Caffeine has become acceptable due only to the vessels in which it is consumed. Nicotine, while possibly more addictive and dose for dose, has only one common method of consumption, tobacco, with the most popular being smoking. Its hard to look at someone drinking a cup a coffee in and think, "Oh look at that addict!". Conversely it is quite easy to say that if you see someone smoking. I'm willing to bet that if nicotine was as prevalent in foods, as with caffeine, we wouldn't be where we are now. Smoking would probably have never become the phenomenon it is, simply due to the range of choices of where to get it.
The fact is they are both addictive, both are at least significant factors in the number 1 and 2 causes of death for Americans, both have similarly beneficial and detrimental side effects. There is one big difference. One of these IS intentionally marketed to, sold to, and consumed by kids and young adults on a daily basis through products in which are regulated by the FDA.
Here are a couple more links that I found interesting.
Caffeine In Colas: "The Real Thing" Isn't The Taste
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11037035
Neurologic Effects of Caffeine: eMedicine Neurology
-----------------------------------
tl;dr
We, as a vaping community, all love to post and cite articles and studies, as I have here, and interpret law and speculate on how semantics will or won't affect us. The most important thing we can do, I believe, is try to find a way to break through the preconceived notions about nicotine, smoking, addiction in a way they can relate to. This is an amazingly strong group and we are all very passionate. There has to be some way to convey that passion in a way that it can grow. Just sayin. Happy Vapin'!
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