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Study: 'Electronic cigarettes' don't deliver - CNN.com

Study: 'Electronic cigarettes' don't deliver

By Paul Courson, CNN
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Nicotine delivery system same "as puffing on an unlit cigarette," researcher says
Virginia Commonwealth University studies "no-smoke tobacco" devices
FDA has halted imports of the devices as it studies their effect on health
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Washington (CNN) -- "Electronic cigarettes" that vaporize nicotine juice to inhale instead of smoke from burning tobacco do not deliver as promised, according to research at Virginia Commonwealth University.

"They are as effective at nicotine delivery as puffing on an unlit cigarette," said Dr. Thomas Eissenberg, at the school's Institute for Drug and Alcohol Studies.

His study, funded by the federal National Cancer Institute, is the first by American doctors to check the function of so-called "no-smoke tobacco" devices, which are unregulated in the United States for sale or use.............

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Dr.Thomas EISSENBERG

He maintains close relations with the Pharmaceutical Industry. He works at VCU (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA) and for the US-Syrian Center for Tobacco Studies. His work was financially supported by many grants from US agencies and the Pharmaceutical industry. He is an excellent slanderer though, surprisingly, he didn’t state in many of his publications that he has worked (and probably still works) as a consultant for firms like Plowshare Inc. and Sention Inc. This obviously represents a non-declared conflict of interest. Besides, see, as an example, the interesting and innocent products a company like Plowshare develops… If you still don’t understand what it is about, contact us.

For more information:

-Eissenberg Thomas. VCU researcher wins NCI grant for tobacco research: Studies will test claims of potential reduced-exposure cigarettes, other products. Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, 16 Feb 2004.

-Nicotine & Tobacco Research (2002) 4, 355– 383 [Conference Summary and Abstracts of Oral Presentations Preclinical, Epidemiological/Public Health, and Clinical Research. Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco; Savannah, Georgia, USA, 20–23 February 2002].

- VCU Resarch Office about Thomas EISSENBERG

Dr Thomas EISSENBERG is author or co-author of a certain number of studies (5 at least published in Nicotine and Tobacco Research) [*] in which he has made use of a smoking topography system called CReSS [Clinical Research Support System]. He has personally contributed to its development, through direct funding (2000 to 2002) from PLOWSHARE Technologies, Inc. Plowshare Technologies :: The Smoking Topography Experts , an industrial firm strongly linked to the Tobacco Industry. PLOWSHARE has recently been acquired by BORGWALDT (13 Nov. 2007), a company which sells, on a large scale, flavours and other products to the Tobacco Industry. One of PLOWSHARE's more famous customers was, at least in 2002, Philip MORRIS.

Plowshare Technologies :: Company :: Background

http://www.borgwaldt.com/cms/front_content.php
 
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Nonsense. Can anyone find a link to the actual study? I somehow linked to a clinical trials page which looked like the study in question but no results were posted. The "control" cigarettes were there termed "own brand" which immediately smelled fishy. At any rate, given all of our experiences it's highly improbable that we're all experiencing a placebo effect. That piece is rubbish.
 

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Ten puffs from either of these electronic cigarettes with a 16 mg nicotine cartridge delivered little to no nicotine," the study found.

little to no for 10 puffs of 16mg. Well I use more than 10 puffs of higher mg nic juice. The dictionary on the internet says the average cigarette only produces 1mg. of nicotine too. I think they set their sights a little high.
 
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