Surgeon Recent reports Regarding health gaps related to the use of cigarettes, ideology emphasizes how to cover evidence of public health policy.
Despite the goal of reducing the gap and fighting illness, this report ignores the reduction of harm, one of the most effective tools to save lives. Instead, accidentally identifies the risk of products, including all nicotine. This is a stance that impairs efforts to reduce smoking mortality.
Studies over decades have shown that the smoking rate, including access to flavorful Vaping products, has a significant low smoking rate.
The problem is beyond tobacco policies. Dr. Vivek Murthy, a surgeon who retires, has recently announced a recommendation for alcohol use. Comprehensive review From the National Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. The NASEM report is an analysis of 230 pages prepared to notify the American's 2025 meal guidelines, and that moderate alcohol consumption is associated with a decrease in the death caused by abstinence. I concluded. This “J-CURVE” relationship, which has been supported by several decades, tends to live long, and tends to have less cardiovascular events than both non-drinkers and large drinkers. It shows that.
Instead of dealing with these discoveries, Mercy advice accepted the prohibited rhetoric and ignored the delicate relationship between alcohol consumption and health. The selective use of such evidence emphasizes the growth trends in which moral agendas are more prioritized over scientific strictness.
It is becoming increasingly common for taxpayers to ignore the evidence of funding for personal prejudice. The main example is a continuous discussion about flavored Vaping products. Recent research including Comprehensive analysis In December, when Yale University's Abigale Friedman led, it reveals unintended results for the ban on flavors. Using data from the behavioral risk factor monitoring system survey, Friedman has discovered that the states of flavored electronic nicotine delivery systems have reduced their daily Vaping and caused 2.2 % increase in daily smoking. These discoveries indicate that while Vaping decreases, smoking (much greater health risk) rises.
This replacement effect, in which VAPING decreases leading to an increase in smoking, is supported by a large number of economic analysis and sales data. 15 additional cigarettes are sold for each 0.7 ml of E-LIQUID, which is not sold for flavor restriction. Yale researcher。 Research National Economic Research Bureau and Research Association on Nicotine and tobacco Check the same pattern. These discoveries emphasize critical truth. VAPING and smoking are alternatives, and the policy that restricts seasoned steam products accidentally pushes individuals to harmful flammable cigarettes.
Despite the overwhelming evidence of these unintended results, policy proprieters continue to prohibit flavors. For example, a Democratic member of Washington has it The law has been introduced By 2026, the banned supporters are not a policy based on evidence, in order to prohibit the flavored electronic cigarettes, menthol cigarettes, and nicotine pouches to the tasteful product in dangerous actions. He claims to frame the problem as a moral responsibility.
This moral approach blures the impact on the real public health. Several years of research has shown a strategy of reducing harm, including access to flavored Vaping products. Smoking rate is significantly low Related mortality rate. By rejecting this evidence, members will not only refrain from saving lives, but will actively pursue policies that are harmful to public health.
The same pattern applies to alcohol discussions. Thousands of studies have established a healthy advantage of moderate alcohol consumption, especially cardiovascular benefits. 2021 research on European groups, It is posted in poisoningThe J-CURVE relationship has been confirmed, indicating that medium drinkers have survived for a long time and the risk of cancer due to lightweight drinking has not increased. However, forbidden rhetoric continues to cover this evidence and is on the side of explicitly designed research to notify effective public health policies.
The rise of mentality in the “nanny nation” reflects the troublesome changes from policy -based policy drafting, where ideology orders exceed scientific evidence. This approach leads to a policy that impairs the people's trust in the health authorities and to make the problem worse for the purpose of dealing with them. By treating all nicotine products as similarly harmful, ignoring the health benefits of moderate alcohol consumption, and implementing the ban on flavors to return people to smoking, policy proprietors will save their lives. Give priority to moral doctrine.
Course corrections have been delayed for a long time. Public hygiene policy must be evidence, not ideology. The interests are too high, and it is not possible to decide on a decision in which moral prejudice affects millions of life. Policy proprieters should adopt a reduction of harm as an important strategy of cigarette control, recognize delicate relationships between alcohol and health, and avoid the ban on blankets that harm better than good.
Scientific evidence is clear. Reduction of harm saves life. Medium alcohol consumption can complement a healthy lifestyle. A flavorful VAPING product can help smokers quit. Public health authorities and members are obliged to act based on this evidence. Controling it can cause serious damage to those who swearing to protect them.
