Scary Stories About Vaping Aren’t Helping Anyone
THEY SAY A lie will go ’round the world while truth is pulling its boots on, but today’s debates over vaping may make you wonder if truth should even bother tying its laces. No matter how thoroughly they’ve been debunked, scare stories about the widespread lethality of e-cigarettes keep seizing the imaginations of journalists, politicians, and concerned parents.
The latest example is , a new book by the Los Angeles–based “certified intervention specialist” Brad Lamm. Just looking at the front cover, you can see signs that Lamm’s approach may be less than scientifically rigorous. There’s the line boasting a foreword by Mehmet Oz, better known as Dr. Oz, a TV host notorious for promoting purportedly miraculous dietary supplements. Then there’s the subtitle: . No one “smokes” an e-cigarette—the absence of smoke is the whole point of
