DHHS funded Moffitt Cancer Center survey found 79% of vapers quit smoking, BUT

NIH/NIDA funded 2013 Moffitt Cancer Center online survey of 1815 adult vapers (who had a history of daily cigarette smoking, and had smoked for at least a year) finds:

- 79% had completely quit smoking cigarettes

- 1% smoked last cigarette >5 years ago

- 23% smoked last cigarette 1-5 years ago

- 20% smoked last cigarette 6-12 months ago

- 34% smoked last cigarette 1-6 months ago

- 95% were daily vapers

- 29% vaped >20 times per day

- 40% vaped 10-20 times per day

- 30% vaped 1-10 times per day

- 83% vaped non tobacco flavorings

- 17% vaped tobacco flavoring

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306460315300174

BUT the authors buried all of these important findings in a table (Table 2), and failed to discus or mention any of these findings in the text or abstract of the study.

To obtain the full text of this study for free, go to
Addictive Behaviors | Vol 52, Pgs 1-126, (January 2016) | ScienceDirect.com
then scroll down and click on the title or PDF of the study
"Gender differences in use and expectancies of e-cigarette users: Online survey results"

At the end of August 2013, Moffitt began the online survey
Moffitt Cancer Center: Moffitt Cancer Center Researchers Want to Talk To E-Cigarette Users
with many vapers at ECF participating in the survey (and recruiting others to do so) at
TBO.com : Moffitt researchers want to hear from e-cigarette users

In the summer of 2015, Moffitt announced they received a $3.6 million grant from NIH to conduct this study at
Moffitt Cancer Center: Moffitt Cancer Center Receives $3.6 Million Grant to Study E-Cigarettes

According to Moffitt Cancer Center, this (gender differences among vapers) is the first e-cigarette study authored or coauthored by the study's Prinicpal Investigator Thomas Brandon
Moffitt Cancer Center: Moffitt Cancer Center: Thomas H. Brandon

So why am I exposing these survey results (instead of the folks at Moffitt who received $3.6 million from NIH and conducted the study)?

And why did Moffitt researchers wait two years, and then bury their findings in a data table of an article that focused exclusively on gender differences found in their survey?

And why didn't Moffitt Cancer Center issue a press release announcing these survey results?

I strongly suspect the answer to all of those questions is because the study results refute Obama's DHHS 7 year old propaganda campaigning demonizing e-cigs, and contradict the policy goal of DHHS for FDA to ban e-cigarettes.

This appear to be yet another example of federally funded researchers not wanting to bite the hand that feeds them (and that could feed them very well for many more years).

 

Virtually all DHHS agencies and at least 100 recipients of DHHS funding have been misrepresenting their own studies findings (on vaping) and burying the data since 2009.

Its all part of DHHS's lobbying campaign to ban e-cigs.

I just discovered this new study yesterday, and I'm trying to generate some news stories. Unfortunately, most news reporters (who are quick to repeat false and misleading claims written by DHHS and their funding recipients in press releases) are not interested in reporting actual findings of e-cig surveys.