The 2009 Family Smoking and Tobacco Prevention Act describes flavors as: an artificial or natural flavor (other than tobacco or menthol) or an herb or spice, including strawberry, grape, orange, clove, cinnamon, pineapple, vanilla, coconut, licorice, cocoa, chocolate, cherry, or coffee, that is a characterizing flavor of the tobacco product or tobacco smoke. They are widely sold in stores across the country
A scientist who has been assembling the entire picture is Peter Shields, an oncologist and professor of medicine at Ohio State University who specializes in lung cancer
Table 2 Logistic regression results: Factors associated with ever e-cigarette use among surveyed people aged 1530 years, NovemberDecember 2021 (Australia, China, India, and UK samples combined) (N=2785*) DISCUSSION E-cigarette advertising is an important modifiable factor that should be addressed to minimize vaping-related harms 8
Those who insist they are 95% less dangerous are therefore only making fingers-crossed predictions, much in the same way that the scientific colossus Ernst Wynder (who published the first case control study on smoking and lung cancer) did about his hopes for reduced-risk cigarettes