A piece of news that went relatively unnoticed.
A study by the Yale School of Public Health shows the consequences of San Francisco's flavour ban. The study involved over 100,000 young people under the age of 18.
A graph is sometimes worth more than 1,000 words, and this one speaks for itself:
It's easy enough to understand, the yellow curve represents the proportion of new smokers under 18 in San Fransisco, a city that has banned flavors in e-liquids with the exception of tobacco and menthol flavors. The black curve represents the same variable in five other "disctricts".
The difference speaks for itself. Before the ban, the decline was similar everywhere, and even greater in San Francisco.
Yes, banning flavors in vape in San Francisco has been effective in ???? experimenting with tobacco... Just the opposite of what some people expected... I see that vape has to be nicer than tobacco for young people not to smoke...? https://t.co/hiCyfZhBWH pic.twitter.com/qEqUu0tPxo
- Pr . B Dautzenberg (@PrDautzenberg) May 25, 2021
At a time when the European Union is preparing a new version of the Tobacco Directive, we hope that these data will be taken into account.
Yes, aromas keep you away from tobacco.
Yes, vape is the best way out for smokers.