A researcher at Yale University said that flavor ban policies could force teens to smoke and use combustible cigarettes.
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NEW HAVEN — A researcher at the School of Public Health at Yale University recently published a study that suggests that a prohibition on flavored vaping products may have led to increased smoking among youth in a large metropolitan jurisdiction.
The study, entitled “A Difference-in-Differences Analysis of Youth Smoking and a Ban on Sales of Flavored Tobacco Products in San Francisco, California,” was authored by Dr. Abigail Friedman, an assistant professor of public health at the School fo Public Health and the Yale Institution for Social and Policy Studies.
Friedman is a well-respected academic and is one of the most prominent in tobacco harm reduction and control.
According to the study’s findings, the ban on flavored tobacco product sales implemented by the City and County of San Francisco, Calif., harmed the rates at which teens switched to smoking or other means of potentially more harmful nicotine delivery.
“San Francisco’s ban on flavored tobacco product sales was associated with increased smoking among minor high school students relative to other school districts,” states the conclusion of Friedman’s study, published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics."
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Yale: A Ban On Flavored Vaping May Have Led Teens To Smoking - Vaping Post
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NEW HAVEN — A researcher at the School of Public Health at Yale University recently published a study that suggests that a prohibition on flavored vaping products may have led to increased smoking among youth in a large metropolitan jurisdiction.
The study, entitled “A Difference-in-Differences Analysis of Youth Smoking and a Ban on Sales of Flavored Tobacco Products in San Francisco, California,” was authored by Dr. Abigail Friedman, an assistant professor of public health at the School fo Public Health and the Yale Institution for Social and Policy Studies.
Friedman is a well-respected academic and is one of the most prominent in tobacco harm reduction and control.
According to the study’s findings, the ban on flavored tobacco product sales implemented by the City and County of San Francisco, Calif., harmed the rates at which teens switched to smoking or other means of potentially more harmful nicotine delivery.
“San Francisco’s ban on flavored tobacco product sales was associated with increased smoking among minor high school students relative to other school districts,” states the conclusion of Friedman’s study, published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics."
See whole article here:
Yale: A Ban On Flavored Vaping May Have Led Teens To Smoking - Vaping Post
