This article was published by the American Council on Science and Health today, which pointed out the obvious question about the recent "airways" study released a couple days ago: why didn't they use cigarette smoke as a control sample? The study published in Chest (a pulmonary health journal) and echoed across the internet through big-media Reuters was suspect from the beginning because of its vagueness.
I also suspect the "independent nature" of the study.
From the article:
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I also suspect the "independent nature" of the study.
From the article:
The current study, published in the journal Chest, provided 30 so-called healthy smokers with e-cigarettes, the electronic devices that deliver a dose of nicotine in a vaporized liquid, thereby eliminating the dangerous combustion products of cigarette smoke. After five minutes of using an e-cigarette, the participants lungs showed signs of airway constriction and inflammation, researchers found.
So what? asks ACSH's Dr. Gilbert Ross. Anything you inhale will affect your airways. Airway constriction is non-specific and has nothing to do with lung problems like emphysema or lung cancer, which are associated with smoking. You cant assume from these data that there would be any long-term harm. Further, I wonder what tests these folks used to detect airway inflammation, which is not reflected in the airway dynamics they measured.
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ACSH's Dr. Josh Bloom agrees. The moment I saw that they didnt run the same experiment using actual cigarettes," he says, "I knew this was pure (and not even especially well done) junk an agenda-based report clumsily masquerading as science.
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