Agreed. I do agree that a final study must be done as to the overall safety factor of
vaping. My only hope is that the AMA can do it without government interferance.
It's not the AMA itself that does the hands-on parts of studies. Members of the AMA, usually doctors who are at or affiliated with a major research university's medical school do the actual study. They get it peer reviewed, and it get accepted by a respected medical journal, and then the AMA basically endorses it, while adding that, of course, more research is needed to answer some sort of unanswered questions. The only times I have seen them state that a study was comprehensive enough that its answer could be accepted as good medicine is when longitudinal studies follow patients for many years looking for and at effects over time.
However, the above paragraph is not why I am concerned. I am concerned because research universities run on research grants that members of the faculty apply for and receive. Who do you think has enough money to fund such a study? Who will step up with a few million dollars (no exaggeration) to do an in-depth study (that could take years before any sort of answer is known)? My best guess is Phillip Morris. They wanted "
tobacco products" to fall under the FDA to rid them self of the various forms of competition they are feeling. And - - it worked!
The vast majority of studies given to the FDA of new drugs are funded by the very drug companies that will profit from the drug's sales. It's no secret. It's all done neat and tidy. I'm not being cynical - I worked at a major research university for over 20 years and knew many of the people who make good livings and build careers doing medical research studies. It gets you tenure, it gets you promoted, and it gets you status and more money. It's big business who has the money to fund this work because they are somehow the ones who profit from it.
its safer than second hand water vapor
