FDA A good read...

[Elizabeth Baldwin]

Here's another good read:

http: //nypcancerprevention.org/features/case_for_or_against_e-cigarettes.html

 

[Uma]

No need to break the link with this one! It's a great article by a respected source. Every counter sunk, with aplomb.

 

[Newportlocal]

Nice article. Had to do a copy paste of the URL to read it. Here is the link.
THE CASE FOR OR AGAINST E-CIGARETTES: WHAT THE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH SAYS | Feature Stories | Cancer Prevention National Newsletter and Web Site

 

[Bill Godshall]

While the article by Amy Fairchild and Ronald Bayer objectively reported findings of many scientific studies on e-cigs, it also contained an intentionally deceptive paragraph inaccurately implying that most/all e-cig advocates support FDA regulation of e-cigs.

There are a number of interesting points of agreement among proponents and skeptics of e-cigarettes.

First, all agree that regulation to ensure the quality of e-cigarettes should be uniform. Laboratory analyses have found sometimes wide variation across brands, in the level of carcinogens, the presence of contaminants, the presence of contaminants, and the quality of nicotine.

During the past two years, I've repeatedly warned (and explained to) Amy Fairchild that the FDA deeming regulation would ban >99% of all e-cig products and give the e-cig industry to Big tobacco companies, but she continues to advocate for the FDA deeming regulation.

Similar to John Britton, Robert West and Deborah Arnott in the UK, Amy Fairchild (and David Abrams and Scott Ballin) acknowledge that e-cigs are less hazardous than cigarettes and have helped smokers quit smoking, while simultaneously advocating federal regulations that would ban >99% of e-cig products (while keeping virtually all cigarettes legal).

 

[Uma]

Good catch Bill! I totally glazed over that, while celebrating the counters.

 

[Anjaffm]

@Elisabeth Baldwin:
Good find, thank you!

Hehehehehe *evil grin* :

In a commentary published earlier this year in the Journal of the American Medical Association, smoking cessation experts Andrea Smith and Simon Chapman of the University of Sydney said that smoking cessation drugs fail most of those who try them. “Sadly, it remains the case that by far the most common outcome at 6 to 12 months after using such medication in real world settings is continuing smoking. … Few, if any, other drugs with such records would ever be prescribed,” they wrote.

Can't wait to throw this in Simon Chapman's face the next time he and I meet in the comments to, say, Clive Bates.
That guy is not - repeat not - a friend of vaping. He is, in fact, the author of the very nasty phrase that says "taking any stick, a cigarette stick or a vape stick, is a pathetic, juvenile act". Can't wait to throw his own opinion on his beloved smoking-cessation crap in his face.

Thank you very much for the link, dear. Including that lovely weapon

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@Bill Godshall:
That stinks!