Can you please help me find a citation?

[leaford]

I ran across this press release, and am trying to find an actual source for it.

Physicians Say E Cigarettes Should Remain On Market

It's by E-Cigarette Junction, and claims that the Royal College of Physicians of the UK has released a statement supporting e-cigs:

"It is now clearly established that NRT is effective, it should not be necessary to demonstrate cessation efficacy for new NRT formulations. Doing so would simply perpetuate the current market dominance, high prices, and poor product profile of the established major producers," said the RCP in a letter addressed to the United Kingdom's Medicines and Health Regulation Authority.

Read more: Physicians Say E Cigarettes Should Remain On Market​

But I can't find any primary source for it.

I've checked the RCP website, and it's not there. And statements on an earlier article on the RCP site seem to contradict it, like this one:

Non-medicinal smoke-free nicotine products: Realise any benefit that smokeless tobacco and other potential nicotine sources might offer as reduced hazard alternatives to smoking, while minimising the hazard to users by:

• Allowing restricted marketing of products for which there is evidence of efficacy as a smoking substitute from randomised clinical trials, and for which potential hazard has been reduced as far as reasonably possible
• Prohibiting the sale of all other non-medicinal nicotine products currently on the market

End tobacco smoking by 2025 | Royal College of Physicians

SO, if true, this change of heart would be great news for us! But I need an actual source before I can accept it.

 

[pmos69]

I suppose you could contact "E Cigarette Junction" and ask them for the source.

 

[mwa102464]

Not for nothing Leaford, but I wouldn't believe anything second hand and would go right to the source !

 

[leaford]

Not for nothing Leaford, but I wouldn't believe anything second hand and would go right to the source !

Exactly my point.

 

[leaford]

I suppose you could contact "E Cigarette Junction" and ask them for the source.

Might be what I have to do.

 

[soundasleep]

Here is a scan of the letter in question:
http://www.mhra.gov.uk/home/groups/es-policy/documents/publication/con102944.pdf

 

[leaford]

Here is a scan of the letter in question:
http://www.mhra.gov.uk/home/groups/es-policy/documents/publication/con102944.pdf

Thank you for that link, soundasleep.

And, on a not totally unrelated note, I just discovered that my crazy chinese desktop pc has somehow "lost" Adobe Acrobat between yesterday and today.

Thankfully, I have a better and more reliable Mac to turn to...

 

[pmos69]

I'm just glad your IT jinx didn't carry over to e-cigs

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[leaford]

I'm just glad your IT jinx didn't carry over to e-cigs

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No kidding, huh? LMAO

 

[jayvap33]

From Google Alerts I get, earliest date: E Cigarettes Should Remain On Market, Say Physicians - EIN News - News Media Monitoring