Jacob Sullum on Vaping vs. Smoking Among Teenagers

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Monitoring the Future Study

Survey results released last week indicate that use of electronic cigarettes by American teenagers continues to rise, even as their use of conventional cigarettes continues to fall. You might think these diverging trends would give pause to critics who worry that e-cigarettes are "reglamorizing" the old-fashioned, combustible kind. Yet as Jacob Sullum notes, opponents of vaping seem undeterred by reality's failure to match their predictions.