FDA CDC once again requests e-cig users who have a cigarette disease to contact CDC (so CDC can falsely insinuate that e-cigs caused the disease)

[No ash More Cash]

I know if I came down with lung cancer it wasn't the vaping it was the 33 years of smoking prior

 

[Oliver]

I know if I came down with lung cancer it wasn't the vaping it was the 33 years of smoking prior

Precisely. And it's also worth noting that there is some evidence that the benefits of smoking cessation are overplayed: in other words, then, if someone does contract, say, lung cancer after starting to dual use, there's ample reason to start from the assumption that the aetiology of that disease is located prior to commencement of dual-use.

But, in any case, the CDC focus-on-individual cases rather than population effects is a massive, massive betrayal of clinical epidemiology and basic good science, and those responsible should be ashamed of themselves.

But they won't be, because this isn't about science. It's pure propaganda.

 

[Oliver]

Note again - the BS asymmetry prinicpal.

If they do pull this off, it's going to capture the public imagination - and no amount of "but they're ingnored population level effects in favor of individual cases" is going to roll it back.

Is there any way to stop it?

 

[bigdancehawk]

Note again - the BS asymmetry prinicpal.

If they do pull this off, it's going to capture the public imagination - and no amount of "but they're ingnored population level effects in favor of individual cases" is going to roll it back.

Is there any way to stop it?

Too late. This is what happens when a governmental agency is given a vague and overly broad mandate, massive funding and minimal accountability. The CDC's primary mission should be to halt the spread of contagious diseases. Instead, it devotes resources to this kind of foolishness at a time when this country has only four fully equipped biocontainment units suitable for the care of patients suffering from highly contagious, deadly diseases, with a combined total of 19 beds. Shameful and embarrassing. Our elected officials have failed in their duty to exercise effective oversight and control.

CDC Director Calls for Rethinking Approach to Ebola Infection Control - WSJ - WSJ
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...as-eric-duncan-has-tested-positive-for-ebola/

 

[nomore stinkies]

So happy I am 61. I guess I am too old to participate. I am so hurt and so disposable....... So I have COPD (the age range is 55 only). So what caused my COPD? HHHMMMM I was diagnosed before I quit the smokes and haven't had an exacerbation in 9 months. Idiots. They infuriate me..... Or am I infuriated because of that wonder pill Chantix? Fools