Addiction Medicine Policy: First, Do No Harm -- medscape.com

[BuGlen]

Link: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/837313

Here's the bit on e-cigs:

1. tobacco (because of tight nicotine addiction) kills more Americans than anything else, other than old age. On the basis of substantial current evidence, e-cigarettes allow the otherwise uncontrollable nicotine addiction to continue, but without the killer pathologies produced by tobacco smoke. Their use by serious nicotine addicts should be maximized.

Another interesting bit:

For public health (and policy), there are the same big three aims, multiplied many times and including prevention of patients' harmful effects on others. "Illness" equals the state of being harmed. Practicing medicine and public health is preventing, eliminating, reducing, controlling, countering, diminishing, lowering, or lessening the likelihood of harm to an individual and to many individuals.

The Dr. who wrote this article (George D. Lundberg, MD) appears to be on the side of harm reduction. At least that's what this particular article indicates to me.

 

[Bill Godshall]

George Lundberg (who I've known since he was editor at JAMA) has been advocating e-cigs for smokers for the past several years.