NYT and Vaping: How to Lie by Saying Only True Things

# Summary A 2022 New York Times article about teen vaping misleadingly linked legal nicotine vapes to EVALI lung injuries caused by illegal THC products adulterated with vitamin E acetate, using technically true but strategically selective phrasing to create a false impression without explicitly stating the falsehood. The article's manipulation through grammatical construction and narrative ordering—rather than outright lies—successfully persuaded readers that legal nicotine vapes were dangerous, despite no verified cases of vitamin E acetate contamination in nicotine products and the actual EVALI crisis being caused exclusively by illegal black-market THC vapes.