Full Description
This work provides an evenhanded and authoritative overview of vaping and its impact on American culture and public health, especially among younger Americans.
The 21st Century Turning Points series is a one-stop resource for understanding the people and events changing America today. This volume is devoted to the rapid rise of vaping across the nation, especially among young people. This trend has prompted fierce debate in communities across the country, with some people heralding "e-cigarettes" and other vaping devices as valuable smoking cessation tools and others condemning them for being unhealthy in their own right—and a gateway to future cigarette consumption.
The Vaping Controversy describes the key events and people that provided the foundation for the rise of e-cigarettes and vaping, from governmental and medical efforts to reduce traditional cigarette smoking to the emergence and rapid spread of an entire industry devoted to selling vaping devices and accessories. This volume also explores how vaping has influenced youth culture and high school life, its impact on "old school" tobacco companies, and the increasingly visible partisan divide in attitudes about the public health impact of vaping.
Contents
Series Foreword
Chapter 1 Overview of the Vaping Controversy
Chapter 2 Landmark Events
Invention of the Electronic Cigarette (1963)
The Surgeon General's Report on Smoking and Health (1964)
Cigarette Warning Labels and Advertising Bans (1965-1970)
Development of the First Commercial Vape (1979)
Tobacco Industry Litigation and Settlements (1998-2006)
Introduction of the Modern E-Cigarette (2003)
The World Health Organization Issues a Warning about E-Cigarettes (2008)
The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (2009)
Federal Courts Define E-Cigarettes as Tobacco Products (2010)
The Debate over the Health Risks of Vaping (2014)
Juul Increases the Popularity of Vaping (2015)
The Food and Drug Administration Issues Deeming Regulations (2016)
Youth Vaping Becomes an "Epidemic" (2018)
Chapter 3 Impacts of the Vaping Controversy
Vaping in Schools
Vaping and Youth Culture
E-Cigarettes and Global Health Policy
E-Cigarettes and the Tobacco Industry
Vaping and Tobacco in American Politics
Chapter 4 Profiles
Aaron Biebert (1982-)
Pro-vaping activist and filmmaker
Adam Bowen (1976?-) and James Monsees (1980?-)
Inventors of the Juul e-cigarette
Stefan Didak (1970?-)
Pro-vaping activist and founder of NOT Blowing Smoke
Stanton Glantz (1946-)
Tobacco control researcher and vocal critic of vaping
Bill Godshall (1957?-)
Antismoking activist who supports vaping as tobacco harm reduction
Scott Gottlieb (1972-)
FDA commissioner who declared youth vaping an epidemic
David Kessler (1951-)
Former FDA commissioner, author, pediatrician, and professor
Mike Moore (1952-)
Mississippi attorney general who launched tobacco industry lawsuit
Luther L. Terry (1911-1985)
Surgeon general who released landmark 1964 report on the dangers of smoking
Henry Waxman (1939-)
U.S. representative who led tobacco industry hearings
Jeffrey Wigand (1942-)
Tobacco industry whistleblower
Jonathan Winickoff (1970?-)
Pediatric tobacco control researcher and opponent of youth vaping
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