Insee wants to slow e-cigarettes

Cody Olsen Jun 17, 2025

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h1>Insee wants to slow e-cigarettes</h1>
                <h2><p>Gov. Jay Inslee called on the Legislature to put further restrictions on e-cigarettes Thursday. “It’s too easy and too cheap for teens to buy and use vaping products.” Inslee said, citing the preliminary results of a 2014 Health Youth Survey that show Washington’s 8th and 10th grade students</p></h2>
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               <p>By <a href="/author/codyolsen0-gmail-com/">Cody Olsen</a></p> 
              <p><time datetime="2025-02-04T05:00:00-08:00">Feb 6, 2018</time></p>
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            <p>Gov. Jay Inslee called on the Legislature to put further restrictions on e-cigarettes Thursday. “It’s too easy and too cheap for teens to buy and use vaping products.” Inslee said, citing the preliminary results of a 2014 Health Youth Survey that show Washington’s 8th and 10th grade students use e-cigarettes more than twice as much as they smoke tobacco.</p><p>“Many kids believe e-cigarettes are safer, but scientific evidence suggests they are not. Vaping may expose our children to harmful toxic chemicals such as lead and formaldehyde as well as nicotine,” said John Wiesman, Secretary of Health.</p><p>Gregory Conley, a spokesman for the American Vaping Association questions the wisdom of this move, saying e-cigarettes are still far less hazardous than tobacco products. Between 2013 and 2014, the nation "had the largest decline in teen smoking, in history.” Conley says this decrease in smoking in directly related to the increase in vaping. We will have a full report shortly.</p>
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Gov. Jay Inslee called on the Legislature to put further restrictions on e-cigarettes Thursday. “It’s too easy and too cheap for teens to buy and use vaping products.” Inslee said, citing the preliminary results of a 2014 Health Youth Survey that show Washington’s 8th and 10th grade students use e-cigarettes more than twice as much as they smoke tobacco.

“Many kids believe e-cigarettes are safer, but scientific evidence suggests they are not. Vaping may expose our children to harmful toxic chemicals such as lead and formaldehyde as well as nicotine,” said John Wiesman, Secretary of Health.

Gregory Conley, a spokesman for the American Vaping Association questions the wisdom of this move, saying e-cigarettes are still far less hazardous than tobacco products. Between 2013 and 2014, the nation "had the largest decline in teen smoking, in history.” Conley says this decrease in smoking in directly related to the increase in vaping. We will have a full report shortly.

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