'Beware Electronic Cigarettes' letter by Scot to Times of Malta more fear mongering

[Bill Godshall]

Beware electronic cigarettes - timesofmalta.com

The Times of Malta must be hard up for garbage to publish, and this idiot lives in Scotland.

Could use some comments.

 

[minyddol]

I better run to the store and get some analogs ...not...the big watch out is the budget batteries that are used in lavatubes and other mods always use a safe battery

 

[Petrodus]

I noticed at the end of the article ...
This idiot referenced Prudence Talbot's University of California
old "junk science" from a long time ago.

Haven't seen good OLE Prudence mentioned for some time. What a joke.


Yea ... Slow news day and good idea to load up this article
with some of our comments

 

[JAY73]

it seems to me he only took some bad reports and stats to work up his side od the argument, but alas that is modern media only find and use what you want instead of the truth good or bad kinda like the FDA if you ask me...

 

[Petrodus]

We live in a copy/paste media world.
1st determine the message ya want to present.
Doesn't make any difference if its true or not.
Then search the web for supporting information
and copy/paste.

The finished article kinda looks OK on the surface
because there are quoted references.

Don't do any critical thinking ... that would require time and effort
AND one just might figure out the article is just a collection of lies.

 

[EddardinWinter]

Research showed that electronic cigarettes produce a fine mist that is absorbed in the lungs (contrary, as you will be aware, to the physiology of the lungs, which is the interchange of gasses, that is oxygen).

--excerpt from the article

I have read this about four times and it still does not make sense (to me-I could be missing something). First, there is more than oxygen gas exchanged, or we would not breathe out CO2 in higher concentrations. Second, if he is trying to say that absorbing a fine mist is contrary to the physiology of the lungs and therefore harmful, he has missed the mark.

I am not sure how safe it is to vape. I am sure it is safer than smoke from a combustible. I hope all of the foes of our industry write this clumsily!

 

[rolygate]

There is just too much rubbish about ecigs to comment on... However, perhaps someone would like to point out that this statement on smokeless tobacco is equally ludicrous: "The concern was that people would perceive smokeless tobacco to be safer than cigarettes."

Well, yes; because it is many times safer:

• You can't get any kind of lung diseases from it
• Smoking causes four times as many oral cancers as the most harmful of all forms of chewing tobacco

So if you can find the numbers for sufferers of lung diseases caused by smoking as a percentage of the smoking population, and do the maths, you might be able to work out exactly how much safer chewing tobacco is than smoking. It's a lot, anyway. Purely as an estimate, use of chewing tobacco seems about ten times safer than smoking - maybe more.

If you then want to go to 'smokeless tobacco', you would need to include Swedish Snus. The health risks of Snus use are virtually zero: the health outcomes of smokers who totally quit, and those who switch to Snus, are statistically the same; Snus does not elevate risk for any disease. Sweden has the lowest smoking-related death rate in the developed world by a wide margin, as a result.

Chew on that.