In June, the Food and Drug Administration announced it was banning the sale of all Juul products, saying the company played a disproportionate role in the rise in youth vaping. Parents Against Vaping E-cigarettes hailed the decision as an enormous step forward in our fight to protect our kids. But that seeming victory was short-lived: In early July, the FDA switched course and put a temporary stay on its order so it could further investigate unspecified scientific issues. That decision, perhaps counterintuitively, was celebrated by a less vocal but growing group of tobacco researchers and public health officials who believe that e-cigarettes can help save the lives of current smokers
Great surprise here
As a result, smoking rates have been consistently on the decline in recent decades
Start low, go slow, and stay low is good advice, especially if you're new to (or newly back to) using cannabis
But the reality is far more complex
Among female college graduates, 6.4 percent are smokers, while only 3.5 percent of women with a graduate degree smoke
