British Medical Journal online survey "Should electronic cigarettes be as freely available as tobacco cigarettes?"

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Should electronic cigarettes be as freely available as tobacco cigarettes?

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With several dozen more votes, the Yes column can grow beyond 90%.

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Yes 86.4% (108 votes)

No 13.6% (17 votes)

Come one folks!
 

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Voted. 62% yes. Get in there!

The accompanying article is by Simon Chapman, a notoriously paranoid and unscientific tobacco-control zealot:

"As with other forms of smokeless tobacco, big tobacco wants smokers to use e-cigarettes as well as cigarettes, not instead of them. Its five goals are widespread dual use; ......ing smoking cessation; resocialising public smoking back into fashion from its forlorn exile outside buildings; conveying to young, apprehensive would-be smokers that nicotine is a benign drug; and welcoming back lapsed smokers."

I'm deeply suspicious of his claim that "there were no differences in smoking quit rates between e-cigarette users and non-users" (Adkison SE, O’Connor RJ, Bansal-Travers M, Hyland A, Borland R, Yong H-H, et al. Electronic nicotine delivery systems. International tobacco control four-country survey. Am J Prev Med2013;44:207–15.), since Carl Phillips smashed a similar claim to pieces on his blog.
 
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