E-cigarettes mimic smoking, but are they safe? - CTV.ca

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E-cigarettes mimic smoking, but are they safe?
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While some manufacturers and distributors of e-cigarettes market them as smoking-cessation aids, many simply advertise them as a safer alternative to smoking cigarettes. Some have claimed that the World Health Organization has endorsed the products, ...
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It's only a matter of time before Governments will get involved and screw this up too

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by 50 per cent compared to placebo.

I wonder how many people will actualy see just how misleading those figures are... how many will even pick up in their heads the 'compared to placebo' (the percentage of how many quit with a placebo conveniently being absent!) (How much would that be? 2, maybe 3%? That makes gum-'success' not the 50 that will be what people read, but a whole 3 to 4.5%....

[TropicalBob]

That article is so full of it that I didn't even want it acknowledged. The actual success figure for most of Big Pharma's NRT is about 4% at a year's time. And no other time measure means anything. You make it year, talk to me. You make it month, ha.

The figures they use are just crap.

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Nic gum, Patches , Cold turkey ,Psycotropic drugs,
Heart surgery,etc.

Gum = no help lousy taste

patches = pretty good at highest strength ,
but no help when stepped down,found myself sucking the nicotine powder from empty pouch ! haha.

Cold turkey = the best I ever did...13 months no smoker...started again.

Drugs = I smoked about 10% more on the drugs.

Heart surgery = 2 stents placed ,angioplasty = had smoke on way home from hospital.