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Shepard Smith at Fox News had the hospital HR director on this afternoon. Ripped him pretty good. Kept asking where the hospital would draw the line, when they would ban salt, alcohol, etc. -- PA Hospital to Stop Hiring Smokers Steve

Yeah, I was just teasing with that Onion article, sorry for confusing you Jersey Girl. As for 'safe', well I think that has been through a variety of definitions over the years. Up until just a few years ago, most pharmaceutical clinical trials did not allow women, minorities, or the elderly...

To get a new drug approved by the FDA, it must be demonstrated in a single clinical trial to be more effective than a placebo. That is all. For 'enhancements' and newer versions of existing drugs, the replacements also do not have to be shown to be better than the drug they are replacing...

Exactly right. As a professional engineer I would be in a lot of trouble if I tried to project test results like that. Seems they are pretty desperate to create some kind of link to e-cigs without having any experimental support. Irresponsible and amateurish. Here is the kind of...

There is no way they can ever keep up, the world cannot be legislated into being safe. List of recalls submitted to the FDA within the last 60 days: www .fda.gov/oc/po/firmrecalls/archive.html (remove the space after www) That used to be a 10 year list, they recently cut it to 60 days...

Had my stick for 5 days, it started leaking today. To be fair, I did have a lot of liquid in it, so I suspect it was related to that. I am using only Johnson Creek VG liquid, vaping PG burns my throat. The first couple of days were fine. But it seems to be a juice burner. I started getting...

Don't know if this is what happened with the OP, but I can add my experience -- as some others have mentioned, my dental hygienist said stopping smoking almost always initially causes more bleeding from the gums. So that condition is not specifically caused by vaping. She noted that quitting...

Hi Kate, Thank you, I tracked down the Ruyan study on that 'Clinical Trials Research Unit' site: www .ctru.auckland.ac.nz/images/ctru/pdf/addictions/wired.pdf Appears a little confusing to me, stating roughly that 'the study aims to test how effectively and rapidly the e-Cigarette relieves...

I posted some of this on a different section of the forum: I have just recently visited my personal physician, optometrist, dental hygienist, and dentist, since switching 100% to the PV in January. I explained it and showed it to them, and they were all extremely interested and supportive...

Thanks Kate, I might check with Cochrane sometime. From what I see on their review archive, many of the referenced 'research studies' on smoking cessation are anecdotal or not even well controlled. Seems any basic study of the smoking-cessation effectiveness of our E-cig vaporizers should...

Kate, did you ever get a response from Kate Cahill or Lindsay Stead at the Cochrane Collaboration? With all the reviews on their 'Tobacco Addiction Group' (www .cochrane.org/reviews/en/topics/94_reviews.html), it would seem the PV/E-Cig would fit right in. A search of their website showed no...

I'm a licensed professional engineer. Trying to test and quantify every combination of factors and effects for physical systems is not possible. In my experience, some variation of Occam's Razor (the simplest explanation is the best) is most realistic. You want to see how 'safe' tested and...

Lingering.

Following up on my post about asking Lipton about their tea bag paper -- I received a prompt email directing me to their Unilever U.S. Consumer Response Center at 1-800-697-7887. I called and was asked for the UPC of the bags I was using, which happened to be ordinary decaffeinated tea. Was...

PS (guess I can't edit my post) -- forgot about the seam... that may indeed be a heat sealed joint. Will wait to hear from the mfgr. Steve

I sent an email inquiry to Lipton to ask if their tea bags use 'heat seal' paper that can contain thermoplastics such as PVC or polypropylene. Or if the bags are made entirely from organic/paper products. The Lipton bags I have used are stapled together, not heat sealed or glued. So I assume...