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Cough Cough
Dec 28, 2009 9:15 AM
It looks like people with a vested interest in e-cigs are posting here. Way to many facts for an actual smoker to understand."
What Treece said is right. I know Treece from an online forum we belong to dedicated to educating people and helping them with electronic cigarettes. A lot of us have done the research on these devices, because we want to know the TRUTH.
The FDA looked into e-cigs because an organization called ASH opposes them and demanded they ban them. Further research by members showed that ASH is funded largely by Pfizer, a maker of many smoking cessation drugs - who actually does have a vested interest in seeing e-cigs kept off the market.
Extensive testing was done by Health New Zealand, an independent lab run by a doctor who studies
tobacco smoking, and it found that the brand tested was free of the most deadly toxins found in tobacco smoke and they should be considered a safer alternative (100 to 1,000 times safer). This is coming from a doctor who is anti-smoking!
The Ruyan® (nicotine) E-Cigarette
The other thing that should be mentioned is that using these to "smoke" where smoking is banned isn't accurate. They do not produce smoke. There is NO smoke. The vapor, unlike smoke, is visible, but it is practically odorless, non-irritating and dissipates quickly. There is also no "sidestream" vapor (like a lit cigarette produces even when just being held.) The e-cigarette vapor is only made when the user inhales it, so most of it is absorbed in the lungs. So, people fearful of second hand smoke need not be concerned by "second hand vapor," because they would most likely not even notice it, unless they see the mist. My sister-in-law is a non-smoker and she lets me use the e-cig in her car, because she can't even tell that I'm using it, unless she sees the mist!
People may not know the long-term affects of using e-cigarettes, but they do know that they are made up of less harmful ingredients than tobacco cigarettes. To tell people to not use e-cigarettes, because they are not completely safe is basically telling them to just keep smoking tobacco cigarettes, which everyone KNOWS are deadly.
We know that e-cigarettes are not "healthy." They aren't meant to be. But it's obvious to the most simple person that something that DOESN'T contain tar, arsenic, ammonia and huge amounts 60+ known carcinogens is going to be better for you than something that does. E-cigs have been PROVEN not to contain those things.
Like I've posted in other comments: Telling someone not to use e-cigarettes, because they still contain some trace carcinogens, is like telling an obese person, who is trying to eat healthier, to go ahead and keep eating Ben & Jerry's, because lowfat yogurt still contains "some" fat.
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