A recent review of e-cigarettes investigated the composition and use of these products and concluded that they must be orders of magnitude safer than cigarettes. The article concluded that:
"Tobacco cigarettes are the leading cause of disease in the United States, which is why the ‘primary goal of tobacco control is to reduce mortality and morbidity associated with tobacco use’ (p. 326).23 Electronic cigarettes are designed to mitigate tobacco-related disease by reducing cigarette consumption and smoking rates. The evidence reviewed in this article suggests that electronic cigarettes are a much safer alternative to tobacco cigarettes. They are likely to improve upon the efficacy of traditional pharmacotherapy for smoking cessation. In light of this evidence, it is unfortunate that in the United States, the American Cancer Society, American Lung Association, American Heart Association, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, Action on Smoking and Health, American Legacy Foundation, American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Association for the Treatment of Tobacco Use and Dependence have all issued statements supporting FDA efforts to take them off the US market. In the United States, the courts will ultimately determine whether the FDA has the legal authority to do this, but we question the ethical and health policy merits of this approach."
The anti-smoking lobby look a lot like fanatics. God save us from their "good intentions". Maybe their intentions are not good, perhaps the anti-smokers are so nasty that they will not be happy until every last smoker who cannot quit dies of lung cancer.
I have always been puzzled by why a relatively safe cigarette was not introduced decades ago. The truth was that the tobacco companies were against it. These companies, which can throw millions at a problem like e-cigarettes are probably at this very moment funding the US Anti-Smoking spokespeople who oppose e-cigarettes. There are probably all sorts of "front" organisations who will give any opponent of e-cigarettes anything they want to stop them being used. Given that they used these exact tactics to suppress the link between smoking and lung cancer it is a certainty that the tobacco companies are behind the move to ban e-cigarettes.
We live in a crazy world where e-cigarettes may be banned but cigarettes are legal. It can only be bribery and corruption that could cause such a discrepancy.
Zachary Cahn, Michael Siegel. Electronic cigarettes as a harm reduction strategy for tobacco control: A step forward or a repeat of past mistakes? Journal of Public Health Policy, 2010; DOI: 10.1057/jphp.2010.41 http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/centers-institutes/population-development/files/article.jphp.pdf
See also:
How to extract nicotine from tobacco
"Tobacco cigarettes are the leading cause of disease in the United States, which is why the ‘primary goal of tobacco control is to reduce mortality and morbidity associated with tobacco use’ (p. 326).23 Electronic cigarettes are designed to mitigate tobacco-related disease by reducing cigarette consumption and smoking rates. The evidence reviewed in this article suggests that electronic cigarettes are a much safer alternative to tobacco cigarettes. They are likely to improve upon the efficacy of traditional pharmacotherapy for smoking cessation. In light of this evidence, it is unfortunate that in the United States, the American Cancer Society, American Lung Association, American Heart Association, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, Action on Smoking and Health, American Legacy Foundation, American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Association for the Treatment of Tobacco Use and Dependence have all issued statements supporting FDA efforts to take them off the US market. In the United States, the courts will ultimately determine whether the FDA has the legal authority to do this, but we question the ethical and health policy merits of this approach."
The anti-smoking lobby look a lot like fanatics. God save us from their "good intentions". Maybe their intentions are not good, perhaps the anti-smokers are so nasty that they will not be happy until every last smoker who cannot quit dies of lung cancer.
I have always been puzzled by why a relatively safe cigarette was not introduced decades ago. The truth was that the tobacco companies were against it. These companies, which can throw millions at a problem like e-cigarettes are probably at this very moment funding the US Anti-Smoking spokespeople who oppose e-cigarettes. There are probably all sorts of "front" organisations who will give any opponent of e-cigarettes anything they want to stop them being used. Given that they used these exact tactics to suppress the link between smoking and lung cancer it is a certainty that the tobacco companies are behind the move to ban e-cigarettes.
We live in a crazy world where e-cigarettes may be banned but cigarettes are legal. It can only be bribery and corruption that could cause such a discrepancy.
Zachary Cahn, Michael Siegel. Electronic cigarettes as a harm reduction strategy for tobacco control: A step forward or a repeat of past mistakes? Journal of Public Health Policy, 2010; DOI: 10.1057/jphp.2010.41 http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/centers-institutes/population-development/files/article.jphp.pdf
See also:
How to extract nicotine from tobacco
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Mark