European girls aged 13-15 have world’s highest rate of tobacco use for age group

https://sh.itjust.works/post/55989710

European girls aged 13-15 have world’s highest rate of tobacco use for age group - sh.itjust.works

Lemmy

Calling vaping tobacco use is like likening a painkiller to eating tree bark.
Yes the nicotine comes from tobacco, but hundreds of other compounds are removed, and smoking or chewing tobacco is cancerous, AFAIK vaping is not, or more precisely less than 1% the toxicity of tobacco.
According to a metastudy I found, vaping is rather a health risk reduction of 84% to 97%, not beyond 99%.
I bet that “accounts” for unknown flavoring, and flavoring being unknown means you have to add extra uncertainty factor. To get the 99% it has to be pharmaceutical grade nicotine and PG based juice and no flavor for zero uncertainty. So I admit that 99% is best case, 84 on the other hand sounds awfully high, and sounds like it includes very flawed studies like the examples I gave u/TanteRegenbogen.