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By: Parker Jamison

Seventy-eight percent think e-cigarette use and vaping is a somewhat (28 percent) or very (50 percent) serious public health problem according to a just-released Siena College Poll of New Yorkers.

Sixty-one percent support the emergency executive order banning the sale of flavored e-cigarettes in New York, 52 percent support banning all e-cigarettes and vaping devices from sale, and 74 percent support raising the age in New York to purchase nicotine products including vaping and e-cigarette products to 21 in all counties, the school reported in a press release. Currently 12 percent of New Yorkers vape on a regular basis.

Sixty-two percent of state residents, up from 54 percent in February 2018 are ‘touched by opioid abuse.’ Each of the five conditions that define being touched by opioids is up from the earlier survey. Twenty percent (up from 16 percent) say that they or someone in their immediate family has abused opioids, 25 percent (up from 14 percent) know someone through work that has abused opioids, and 35 percent (up from 24 percent) know of someone that has died due to opioid overdose.

Thirty-eight percent (up from 25 percent) has had opioid abuse among their friends or extended family, and 49 percent (up from 25 percent) has had a friend, co-worker or acquaintance share with them that they have had opioid abuse in their family.

By 56-36 percent citizens support the legalization of recreational marijuana, but by 53-39 percent they believe legalization will lead to more use and abuse among young people. Forty-seven percent think legal marijuana will lead to workplace problems. Over half, 52 percent, have used marijuana and 21 percent currently do.

“While opioid abuse is seen as the most serious public health issue, concerns over vaping have risen dramatically and now approach a level similar to opioids. Marijuana is seen as the least serious from a list that also includes obesity, tobacco and alcohol,” said Siena College Research Institute Director Don Levy.

“Vaping is not only in the news, but 73 percent say that we are facing a vaping epidemic among young people. Seventy-eight percent have seen someone vaping in outdoor public spaces while 61 percent have witnessed vaping in an indoor public space,” Levy said. “Almost a quarter report being offered an e-cig and almost as many have been offered a vaping device used to inhale THC. By 60-27 percent, New Yorkers say e-cigarettes may promote nicotine addiction and can be harmful rather than help lessen cigarette smoking.”

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