E-Cigarettes make RI News

[providence]

Electronic cigarettes a hot trend | Rhode Island news | projo.com | The Providence Journal

Highlights


The FDA reports that it is “looking into this.” And it is getting encouragement to look thoroughly and decisively. Two months ago David Gifford, the state’s health director, wrote the FDA asking it to regulate e cigs because of their nicotine content.

“We don’t support e cigarettes,” said Annemarie Beardsworth, spokeswoman for the Rhode Island Department of Health. “Nicotine is an addictive substance.” Any product promoting withdrawal from nicotine, she maintained , should be FDA-approved. “E cigarettes are not a regulated product. There is no identification required to purchase them. With tobacco you need to be 18.”


More needs to be known about e cigarettes, according to Jim Beardsworth, communications director for the Warwick-based Southern New England Region of the American Cancer Society. “There is not a lot of data out there. There have not been clinical trials on this product. I do think it’s something that deserves tremendous caution.”

[Skad]

Is it just me, or are e-cigs the latest trend in panic journalism?

OMG, they aren't regulated!! Think of the children!!!
Because kids are much more likely to spend a couple of hundred on equipment and juice then to steal a pack of smokes off the counter of the local corner store.

[providence]

In RI there's only 1 statewide newspaper (the Projo). So please hit the site up with lots of comments to get attention on the facts!

[Savantster]

We live in a fear based economy.. this is to be expected, and we have lost the ability for journalists to actually do their jobs. Today, they just regurgitate the opinion of the media owner and upper management.

Someone in our system doesn't want smokers to have a MUCH safer alternative, not from China anyway. Notice NJoy is all over while stopping shipments in for everyone else.

And if we have a "non dangerous" means to get "nicotine", we have to have that discussion MANY people would rather avoid.. "is taking drugs bad".. If you can take "clean nicotine" in a legal form (as opposed to a "medicine" to quit a "bad habit") just to take it in, no stigma, just happy goodness drug use (like we do with caffeine), how do you address the ........ issue? Since it's safer than alcohol (legal) and tobacco (legal) and now the "new drug clean nicotine for recreation".. how do you make a case to keep ........ illegal?

The power elite is getting nervous, I think. The masses want their drugs, and when you find safer ways to get them, it means things are changing.. change is bad for them, good for us.

[calligal]

I found the article too and came here to post if it had not already been done. Currently going through the comments and giving my thumbs up and downs. And I created an account so my own comment could be added.