Facts
The Tobacco Industry is against everything Xpoz stands for.
Check out the facts below to see why you should support Xpoz and a tobacco free scene.
FACTS:
Heavy nicotine use can prime adolescent brains for future substance use.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (2016). E-cigarette Use Among Youth and Young Adults. A Report of the Surgeon General. Retrieved from https://e-cigarettes.surgeongeneral.gov/documents/2016_SGR_Exec_Summ_508.pdf.
As of February 2020, at least 39 states are suing vape companies for illegal marketing practices that targeted teens.
JUUL paid influencers to promote their product, especially those popular with younger audiences and have a larger following on social media.
JUUL shut down their social media accounts in 2018, and now claims “We have never marketed to youth and we never will”, the evidence proves that this is a lie.
SOURCE: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-09-24/hiltzik-juul-target-teens
https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/28/2/146
JUUL created marketing campaigns and programs specifically for teens, including going into classrooms and stating their products are safe when they really aren’t.
SOURCE: Kaplan, S. (2019, July 25). Juul Targeted Schools and Youth Camps, House Panel on Vaping Claims. The New York Times. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/health/juul-teens-vaping.html
JUUL gave out free vapes at movie nights.
SOURCE: Chaykowski, K. (2018, November 16). The Disturbing Focus Of Juul's Early Marketing Campaigns. Forbes. Retrieved from https://www.forbes.com/sites/kathleenchaykowski/2018/11/16/the-disturbing-focus-of-juuls-early-marketing-campaigns/#45436c0c14f9
FACTS:
“No young person should ever try our product.” ―Vape Company Executive
SOURCE: JUUL Labs, Inc. (2018, April 25). JUUL Labs Announces a Comprehensive Strategy to Combat Underage Use [Press release]. Retrieved from Retrieved from https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/juul-labs-announces-comprehensive-strategy-to-combat-underage-use-300636220.html.
"Big Tobacco owns some of the biggest vape brands. RJ Reynolds, which is behind some of the biggest tobacco brands like Camel and Natural American Spirits, owns VUSE. Altria who also owns Marlboro cigarettes owns 35% of JUUL, and Imperial Tobacco that’s behind Winston’s owns Blu."
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (2016). E-cigarette Use Among Youth and Young Adults. A Report of the Surgeon General. Retrieved from https://e-cigarettes.surgeongeneral.gov/documents/2016_SGR_Exec_Summ_508.pdf
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/20/altria-takes-stake-in-juul-a-pivotal-moment-for-the-e-cigarette-maker.html
“It just sort of took over...”-Christian “for me...it’s been remarkably difficult to kick it...” -Dieter
“....this is a recipe for addiction...” -Peyton
SOURCE: Becker, R. (2018, July 3). Why is JUUL Worth $16 Billion? It's More like a Cigarette Than You Think. The Verge. Retrieved from https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/3/17529442/juul-vapes-nicotine-electronic-cigarettes-addiction-funding
“...and this f**** thing is custom-designed to make you want to start using it more.”
SOURCE: Becker, R. (2018, July 3). Why is JUUL Worth $16 Billion? It's More like a Cigarette Than You Think. The Verge. Retrieved from https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/3/17529442/juul-vapes-nicotine-electronic-cigarettes-addiction-funding
JUUL was the first e-cig that promoted heavily on social media, which reached a lot of underage teens, using Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram
In 2019 JUUL replaced its CEO with a former Big Tobacco executive.
FACTS:
During the heating process, newer vapes also produce formaldehyde (what they use to preserve dead bodies), acetone (nail polish remover and paint thinner), acetaldehyde (a chemical in glue), and other carcinogens in their vapor.
SOURCE: Jensen, R. P., Luo, W., Pankow, J. F., Strongin, R. M., & Peyton, D. H. (2015). Hidden formaldehyde in e-cigarette aerosols. New England Journal of Medicine, 372(4), 392-394.
Sleiman, M., Logue, J. M., Montesinos, V. N., Russell, M. L., Litter, M. I., Gundel, L. A., & Destaillats, H. (2016). Emissions from electronic cigarette key parameters affecting the release of harmful chemicals. Environmental Science & Technology, 50(17), 9644-9651.
Herrington, J. S., & Myers, C. (2015). Electronic cigarette solutions and resultant aerosol profiles. Journal of Chromatography A, 1418, 192–199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chroma.2015.09.034
Pulegone, a chemical that is carcinogenic and can cause liver toxicity, is found in mint and menthol-flavored e-cigarettes at levels well above what is considered safe.
SOURCE: Jabba, S. V., & Jordt, S.-E. (2019). Risk Analysis for the Carcinogen Pulegone in Mint- and Menthol-Flavored e-Cigarettes and Smokeless Tobacco Products. JAMA Internal Medicine, 179(12), 1721–1723. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2019.3649.
Vapes can emit up to 31 different chemicals like formaldehyde.
SOURCE: Sleiman, M., Logue, J. M., Montesinos, V. N., Russell, M. L., Litter, M. I., Gundel, L. A., & Destaillats, H. (2016). Emissions from electronic cigarettes: key parameters affecting the release of harmful chemicals. Environmental science & technology, 50(17), 9644-9651.
Further, toxic metal particles such as chromium have been found in e-cig vapor, which can cause damage to the lungs.
SOURCE: Olmedo, P., Goessler, W., Tanda, S., Grau-Perez, M., … & Rule, A.M. (2018). Metal concentrations in e-cigarette liquid and aerosol samples: the contribution of metallic coils. Environmental Health Perspectives, 126(2), 1-11.
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). 2012. Toxicological Profile for Chromium. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service.
Juul’s own patent states: “[N]icotine salt formulations provide satisfaction…comparable to smoking a traditional cigarette.”
SOURCE: Bowen et al. (2015). United States Patent No. US 9,215,895 B2. Retrieved from: https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/e2/9a/99/5a55ed883b0523/US9215895.pdf
FACTS:
One 3% vape pod contains about [or, approximately] 23mg of nicotine
SOURCE: Juul Labs, Inc. (2020). Discover More About JuulPods & Flavors. Retrieved from https://www.juul.com/resources/What-is-JUUL-Vape-Liquid-All-JUUL-Pod-Flavors
One 3% pod has as much nicotine as you get from an entire pack of cigarettes.
SOURCE: Jarvis, M. J., Boreham, R., Primatesta, P., Feyerabend, C., & Bryant, A. (2001).
Nicotine yield from machine-smoked cigarettes and nicotine intakes in smokers: evidence from
a representative population survey. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 93(2),
134-138.
Federal Trade Commission. (2000). Tar, nicotine, and carbon monoxide of the smoke of
1294 varieties of domestic cigarettes for the year 1998. Washington DC: Federal Trade
Commission.
Teens who first try tobacco using a vape are four times more likely to have tried smoking cigarettes, compared to teens who haven't vaped.
SOURCE: Berry, K. M., Fetterman, J. L., Benjamin, E. J., Bhatnagar, A., Barrington-Trimis, J. L., Leventhal, A. M., & Stokes, A. (2019). Association of electronic cigarette use with subsequent initiation of tobacco cigarettes in US youths. JAMA network open, 2(2), e187794-e187794.
Newer vapes containing nicotine salts create a stronger nicotine hit that can get you addicted faster.
SOURCE: Barrington-Trimis, J. L., & Leventhal, A. M. (2018). Adolescents’ Use of “Pod Mod” E-Cigarettes—Urgent Concerns. New England Journal of Medicine, 379(12), 1099–1102. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMp1805758
Jackler, R. K., & Ramamurthi, D. (2019). Nicotine arms race: JUUL and the high-nicotine product market. Tobacco Control, tobaccocontrol-2018.
The nicotine you get in one vape pod can be as much as an entire pack of cigarettes.
SOURCE: Bitzer, Z. T., Goel, R., Reilly, S. M., Elias, R. J., Silakov, A., Foulds, J., ... & Richie Jr, J. P. (2018). Effect of flavoring chemicals on free radical formation in electronic cigarette aerosols.Free Radical Biology and Medicine,120, 72-79.
Goniewicz, M. L., Boykan, R., Messina, C. R., Eliscu, A., & Tolentino, J. (2018). High exposure to nicotine among adolescents who use Juul and other vape pod systems (‘pods’).Tobacco control, tobaccocontrol-2018.
Federal Trade Commission. (2000). Tar, nicotine, and carbon monoxide of the smoke of 1294 varieties of domestic cigarettes for the year 1998. Washington DC: Federal Trade Commission.
Nicotine salts deliver nicotine almost exactly like a cigarette.
SOURCE: Benowitz, N. L., Hukkanen, J., & Jacob, P. (2009). Nicotine chemistry, metabolism, kinetics and biomarkers. In Nicotine psychopharmacology (pp. 29-60). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
Bowen et al. (2015). United States Patent No. US 9,215,895 B2. Retrieved from: https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/e2/9a/99/5a55ed883b0523/US9215895.pdf
FACTS:
13 people around the world die from tobacco-related causes every minute.
SOURCE: Drope J, Schluger N, Cahn Z, Drope J, Hamill S, Islami F, Liber A, Nargis N, Stoklosa M. (2018). The Tobacco Atlas, 6th Edition. Atlanta: American Cancer Society and Vital Strategies. Retrieved from https://tobaccoatlas.org/
There are 8 million tobacco-related deaths annually, and while people are dying, Big Tobacco is profiting US $62 billion.
SOURCE: Drope J, Schluger N, Cahn Z, Drope J, Hamill S, Islami F, Liber A, Nargis N, Stoklosa M. (2018). The Tobacco Atlas, 6th Edition. Atlanta: American Cancer Society and Vital Strategies. Retrieved from https://tobaccoatlas.org/
World Health Organization. (2019). WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic 2019: offer help to quit tobacco use. Retrieved from https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/who-report-on-the-global-tobacco-epidemic-2019-offer-help-to-quit-tobacco-use
American Cancer Society. (2018). Report: Big tobacco is targeting the world's most vulnerable to increase profits. Retrieved from https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-03-big-tobacco-world-vulnerable-profits.html
FACT:
Tobacco production damages the environment and diverts agricultural land that could be used to grow food. If all of the tobacco farms were turned into food farms, millions of people could be fed.
SOURCE: Drope J, Schluger N, Cahn Z, Drope J, Hamill S, Islami F, Liber A, Nargis N, Stoklosa M. (2018). The Tobacco Atlas, 6th Edition. Atlanta: American Cancer Society and Vital Strategies. Retrieved from https://tobaccoatlas.org/
FACTS:
When cigarette butts are littered in water, chemicals seep out of them that are toxic to aquatic life.
SOURCE: Slaughter, E., Gersberg, R. M., Watanabe, K., Rudolph, J., Stransky, C., & Novotny, T. E. (2011). Toxicity of cigarette butts, and their chemical components, to marine and freshwater fish. Tobacco Control, 20 Suppl 1, i25–i29. https://doi.org/10.1136/tc.2010.040170
Most disposable vape devices are made of plastic, and we know how harmful plastic can be to our environment.
The chemicals in vape devices also can be a danger to our environment, including potentially seeping into groundwater.
Lithium batteries have been shown to harm the environment, these batteries are used in vape devices including disposables.
FACT:
Deforestation for tobacco growing has many serious environmental consequences – including loss of biodiversity, soil erosion and degradation, water pollution and increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide. In 2011, over 10 million acres of land were used to grow tobacco.
SOURCE: Novotny, T. E., Bialous, S. A., Burt, L., Curtis, C., Costa, V. L. D., Iqtidar, S. U., ... & Tursan d'Espaignet, E. (2015). The environmental and health impacts of tobacco agriculture, cigarette manufacture and consumption. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 93, 877-880. Retrieved from https://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/93/12/15-152744/en/
FACT:
The deception of Big Tobacco has a long history, even setting up secret labs in the ‘70s that proved how harmful exposure to cigarette smoke really is, but instead of sharing this information they hid it and kept profiting off this harmful product.
FACT:
Water pipe smokers may absorb even more of the toxins also found in cigarette smoke than cigarette smokers do. This is because smoking sessions are longer and smokers puff more frequently. A typical 1-hour hookah session involves inhaling 100–200 times the volume of smoke from a single cigarette
SOURCE: Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (2013). Hookahs. Accessed 25 February, 2015. http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/tobacco_industry/hookahs/
World Health Organization. (2005). Tobacco Regulation Advisory Note. Water Pipe Tobacco Smoking: Health Effects, Research Needs and Recommended Actions by Regulators. Geneva: World Health Organization, Tobacco Free Initiative. Retrieved from http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2005/9241593857_eng.pdf?ua=1
FACT:
JUUL didn't have a nicotine warning label on the packaging until the FDA required it in 2018, this is 3 years after their product launch.
FACT:
An estimated 4.5 trillion cigarette butts are discarded annually, making them the most common type of litter on earth.
SOURCE: Slaughter, E., Gersberg, R. M., Watanabe, K., Rudolph, J., Stransky, C., & Novotny, T. E. (2011). Toxicity of cigarette butts, and their chemical components, to marine and freshwater fish. Tobacco Control, 20(Suppl_1), i25–i29. https://doi.org/10.1136/tc.2010.040170
FACT:
Exposure to secondhand smoke causes nearly 42,000 deaths each year among adults in the United States:
- Secondhand smoke causes 7,333 annual deaths among U.S. adults from lung cancer.
- Secondhand smoke causes 33,951 annual deaths among U.S. adults from heart disease.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (2014). A Report of the Surgeon General: The Health Consequences of Smoking–50 Years of Progress. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK179276/pdf/Bookshelf_NBK179276.pdf
FACT:
In one study, beagles were given tracheostomies so that pipes could be inserted into their throats, forcing them to smoke.
SOURCE: Owen, T.B. (n.d.). Respiratory Impairment in Beagles Exposed to Cigarette Smoke. British American Tobacco. Bates No. 100247477.
FACT:
The following terms are all taken from Big Tobacco’s files that have been used to describe their customers:
- Problems with their own self esteem
- Has menial, boring job
- Passive-aggressive
- Probably leads fairly dull existence
- Grooming not a strong priority
- Lacks inner resources
- Non-thinking
- Insecure follower
SOURCE: RJR; HUNTER CS. MARKETING RESEARCH REPORT. INNER CITY BLACK CREATIVE EXPLORATORY. MARKETING DOC. R. J. Reynolds. Legacy Tobacco Documents Library. January 16, 1989. Bates Number: 507119955/9990. Retrieved from http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/lsg28c00/pdf.
RUNNING LIST OF YA CHARACTERISTICS. Legacy Tobacco Documents Library. R.J. Reynolds. 1988. Bates Number: 507350280/0288. http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/rtl28c00/pdf.
SMOKER PSYCHOGRAPHICS. Brown and Williamson. Legacy Tobacco Documents Library. April 1981. Bates Number: 549000992/1019 http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/rtl28c00/pdf.
MINDSET SEGMENTS. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company Documents. Legacy Tobacco Documents Library. R.J. Reynolds. January 3, 1991. Bate Number: 510320848/0876.http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/abr28c00/pdf.
FACT:
Starting in the 1970s, Philip Morris set up a secret research laboratory in Germany where they conducted research on secondhand smoke, including animal testing on rats. Despite finding that secondhand smoke was harmful to health, Philip Morris hid the results and continued to state that secondhand smoke is not harmful.
SOURCE: Diethelm, P.A., Rielle, J., & McKee, M. (2005). The whole truth and nothing but the truth? The research that Philip Morris did not want you to see. Lancet, 366: 86-92.
FACT:
A typical hookah session exposes you to almost 2 times as much nicotine, 8 times more carbon monoxide, and 36 times more tar than a cigarette. In a typical hookah session, you can inhale as much carbon monoxide as if you had smoked 11 cigarettes.
SOURCE: Cobb, C., Ward, K. D., Maziak, W., Shihadeh, A. L., & Eissenberg, T. (2010). Waterpipe tobacco smoking: an emerging health crisis in the United States. American Journal of Health Behavior, 34(3), 275–285. https://doi.org/10.5993/ajhb.34.3.3
Shihadeh, A., & Saleh, R. (2005). Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, "tar", and nicotine in the mainstream smoke aerosol of the narghile water pipe. Food and Chemical Toxicology, 43(5), 655–661. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fct.2004.12.013
FACT:
Big tobacco targeted people living with mental illness by handing out free cigarettes at psychiatric facilities.
Nearly 1 in 3 adults with mental illness smoke (compared to almost 1 in 5 adults without mental illness).
SOURCE:
Apollonio D, Malone R. Marketing to the marginalised: tobacco industry targeting of the homeless and mentally ill. Tobacco Control. 2005; 14(6): 1-24.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2020). Tobacco Use and Quitting Among Individuals with Behavioral Health Conditions. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/disparities/mental-illness-substance-use/index.htm
FACT:
Tobacco depletes the soil of many nutrients, so fertilizers and pesticides are heavily used in tobacco production. These chemicals can endanger workers and create runoff that pollutes our water sources.
SOURCE: Novotny, T. E., Bialous, S. A., Burt, L., Curtis, C., Costa, V. L. D., Iqtidar, S. U., ... & Tursan d'Espaignet, E. (2015). The environmental and health impacts of tobacco agriculture, cigarette manufacture and consumption. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 93, 877-880. Retrieved from https://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/93/12/15-152744/en/
FACT:
Plastic pieces of cigarette butts have been found in the stomachs of marine creatures that mistake them for food. Land animals have also been killed after mistakenly eating cigarette butts.
SOURCE: Novotny, T. E., Hardin, S. N., Hovda, L. R., Novotny, D. J., McLean, M. K., & Khan, S. (2011). Tobacco and cigarette butt consumption in humans and animals. Tobacco Control, 20(Suppl 1), i17–i20. https://doi.org/10.1136/tc.2011.043489
FACT:
The tobacco industry adds chemicals like the ones listed below to make cigarettes more addictive, easier to smoke, and better tasting. A puff of cigarette smoke contains over 7,000 chemicals.
- Toluene (found in paint thinners)
- Formaldehyde (used to preserve dead bodies)
- Benzene (found in gasoline)
- Hydrazine (found in rocket fuel)
- Cadmium (found in batteries)
- Methanol (found in antifreeze)
- Urea (found in urine)
- Ammonia (found in cleaning supplies)
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (2010). A Report of the Surgeon General: How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease: What It Means to You (Consumer Booklet). Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health. Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/sgr/2010/consumer_booklet/pdfs/consumer.pdf