Banning Flavored JUUL Pods Is Actually Dangerous
The ban on flavored pods like JUUL’s didn’t exactly compel teens to quit
A little over a year has passed since mostly young people began appearing in U.S. hospitals, complaining of a serious and mysterious lung ailment.
That means it’s been just shy of a year since U.S. regulators and public health officials started banning flavored nicotine vaporizer pods—the main policy response to the “vape-lung crisis,” the outbreak of “e-cigarette or vaping product use associated lung injury,” or “EVALI.”
And not only was that exactly the wrong thing to do—once-legal products like flavored JUUL pods, banned in the wake of EVALI, have not been linked to the crisis—such bans can make vaping more dangerous, recent research from the Yale School of Public Health has found.
Since nobody knew what was causing young Americans’ lungs to fill up with viscous fluid and in some cases fail, the vape-lung crisis was very scary. But it was also very limited. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, EVALI was linked to a total of 2,807 hospitalizations and 68 deaths nationwide through February. In other words, it was very rare.
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