Arghhh - I wanted to comment but I'm not on FB, so I couldn't. I'll post my comment here for posterity:
I had to laugh at the statement "Remember, no company that sells an addictive chemical for profit is interested in having you quit. THR is about market share, not public health." Before the advent of the e-cigarette, millions of smokers were in a box, an easy target for excessive taxation, and for lather-rinse-repeat ineffective pharmaceutical smoking cessation products and services. Imagine the impact to the bottom lines of federal and state governments if a significant percentage of smokers switch to the e-cigarette and are no longer subject to the onerous taxes. And to the bottom lines of pharmaceutical companies if suddenly there is little demand for their NRT's and other smoking cessation medications that have an abysmal success rate. And as a side effect, fewer sales of other drugs for COPD, asthma, migraines, blood pressure, etc. (a result of no longer inhaling tar and the chemical cocktail produced by tobacco smoke). So who is it exactly that doesn't want you to quit? And by quit, I mean quit smoking tobacco cigarettes. Switching to an alternative such as the e-cigarette is orders of magnitude less harmful than smoking, and provides an escape hatch from that box. Is it 100% safe? Of course not. Neither is getting in your car and driving to work, or drinking coffee. And certainly these products should not be sold to minors. Many states have enacted legislation to ban sales to minors. But it is funny that many of the alphabet soup health organizations have opposed such legislation.
