Don’t ban electric cigarettes

[sherid]

Monday, Mar 09, 2009, Page 8

Don’t ban electric cigarettes
Taipei Times - archives
All global smoking bans define cigarettes as items that contain tobacco and about 4,000 chemicals, only one of which is nicotine, and are lit and burned by combustion to produce tobacco smoke. Electronic cigarettes are not tobacco cigarettes by that legal definition (“John Tung Foundation takes aim at e-cigarettes,” March 6, page 4).

With electronic cigarettes, a misnomer product name if ever there was one, there is no tobacco, no lighting, no burning and no 3,999 other chemicals. Categorizing electronic cigarettes to be the same as tobacco cigarettes simply because they both contain nicotine is junk science based solely on emotional association. Banning electronic cigarettes would also mean having to ban nicotine patches and gum too, as well as at least 72 food sources that billions of people depend on.

The source of nicotine for electronic cigarettes could easily be from something other than tobacco. There are 66 other species of plants that contain nicotine, including potatoes and tomatoes. If nicotine is banned, then the whole human race will starve to death. Can anti-smokers really be that emotionally and mentally stupid?

Apparently the answer is yes, they can. Instead of worshiping anti-smokers and giving them money to eradicate nicotine, anti-smokers need a lot of psychological counseling.

STEVE HARTWELL

Toronto, Canada

 

[dohsma]

Monday, Mar 09, 2009, Page 8

Don’t ban electric cigarettes
Taipei Times - archives
All global smoking bans define cigarettes as items that contain tobacco and about 4,000 chemicals, only one of which is nicotine, and are lit and burned by combustion to produce tobacco smoke. Electronic cigarettes are not tobacco cigarettes by that legal definition (“John Tung Foundation takes aim at e-cigarettes,” March 6, page 4).

With electronic cigarettes, a misnomer product name if ever there was one, there is no tobacco, no lighting, no burning and no 3,999 other chemicals. Categorizing electronic cigarettes to be the same as tobacco cigarettes simply because they both contain nicotine is junk science based solely on emotional association. Banning electronic cigarettes would also mean having to ban nicotine patches and gum too, as well as at least 72 food sources that billions of people depend on.

The source of nicotine for electronic cigarettes could easily be from something other than tobacco. There are 66 other species of plants that contain nicotine, including potatoes and tomatoes. If nicotine is banned, then the whole human race will starve to death. Can anti-smokers really be that emotionally and mentally stupid?

Apparently the answer is yes, they can. Instead of worshiping anti-smokers and giving them money to eradicate nicotine, anti-smokers need a lot of psychological counseling.

STEVE HARTWELL

Toronto, Canada

Interesting read. I had no idea there was nicotine in tomatoes and potatoes. Now if you'll excuse me I need to go smoke some french fries.

 

[QueenInNC]

Interesting read. I had no idea there was nicotine in tomatoes and potatoes. Now if you'll excuse me I need to go smoke some french fries.

hahahahaha!!! I'll bet there is more nicotine of you eat the potato before cooking it!

 

[Smo]

Wow almost an e-smoker manifesto! RIGHT2VAPE!

Monday, Mar 09, 2009, Page 8

Don’t ban electric cigarettes
Taipei Times - archives
All global smoking bans define cigarettes as items that contain tobacco and about 4,000 chemicals, only one of which is nicotine, and are lit and burned by combustion to produce tobacco smoke. Electronic cigarettes are not tobacco cigarettes by that legal definition (“John Tung Foundation takes aim at e-cigarettes,” March 6, page 4).

With electronic cigarettes, a misnomer product name if ever there was one, there is no tobacco, no lighting, no burning and no 3,999 other chemicals. Categorizing electronic cigarettes to be the same as tobacco cigarettes simply because they both contain nicotine is junk science based solely on emotional association. Banning electronic cigarettes would also mean having to ban nicotine patches and gum too, as well as at least 72 food sources that billions of people depend on.

The source of nicotine for electronic cigarettes could easily be from something other than tobacco. There are 66 other species of plants that contain nicotine, including potatoes and tomatoes. If nicotine is banned, then the whole human race will starve to death. Can anti-smokers really be that emotionally and mentally stupid?

Apparently the answer is yes, they can. Instead of worshiping anti-smokers and giving them money to eradicate nicotine, anti-smokers need a lot of psychological counseling.

STEVE HARTWELL

Toronto, Canada

 

[The Wiz]

I don't think I could live in a world that banned McDonalds french fries.....Preposterous!!!! The Wiz!

 

[smokingclam]

Can anti-smokers really be that emotionally and mentally stupid?

Apparently the answer is yes, they can. Instead of worshiping anti-smokers and giving them money to eradicate nicotine, anti-smokers need a lot of psychological counseling.

STEVE HARTWELL

Toronto, Canada

I think this needs to be posted all over the internet. Best thing I've read all day.

 

[SpaceCadet]

Great letter. One of our members?

 

[QueenInNC]

Joking aside, this is a great letter!

 

[swanee]

Very good read thanks op

 

[pwholmes]

I love it. All I'm ingesting is a common ingredient found in tomatoes and potatoes! Oh, forgive me. There is second-hand water vapor! Sorry about that!

 

[sparkomatic]

Is anyone else thinking about the "Tomacco" episode of the Simpsons?

 

[dohsma]

Is anyone else thinking about the "Tomacco" episode of the Simpsons?

Wow I totally forgot that one. Hilarious

 

[MonkeyMonk]

Great find! Maybe that's why I love tomatoes!

 

[Lithium1330]

Is anyone else thinking about the "Tomacco" episode of the Simpsons?

Yeah! and it is based on real life: Tomacco - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Since 1959! if only nicotine wasn't so dangerous...

 

[sherid]

Besides nicotine being found in common plants, there is quite a large volume of studies and observations about the therapeutic use of nicotine and, in some cases, smoking itself. It is known as the "smoker's paradox."
Therapeutic uses

The primary therapeutic use of nicotine is in treating nicotine dependence in order to eliminate smoking with its risks to health. Controlled levels of nicotine are given to patients through gums, dermal patches, lozenges, electronic/substitute cigarettes or nasal sprays in an effort to wean them off their dependence.

However, in a few situations, smoking has been observed to apparently be of therapeutic value to patients. These are often referred to as "Smoker’s Paradoxes".[30] Although in most cases the actual mechanism is understood only poorly or not at all, it is generally believed that the principal beneficial action is due to the nicotine administered, and that administration of nicotine without smoking may be as beneficial as smoking, without the higher risk to health due to tar and other ingredients found in tobacco.

For instance, recent studies suggest that smokers require less frequent repeated revascularization after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).[30] Risk of ulcerative colitis has been frequently shown to be reduced by smokers on a dose-dependent basis; the effect is eliminated if the individual stops smoking.[31][32] Smoking also appears to interfere with development of Kaposi's sarcoma,[33] breast cancer among women carrying the very high risk BRCA gene,[34] preeclampsia,[35] and atopic disorders such as allergic asthma.[36] A plausible mechanism of action in these cases may be nicotine acting as an anti-inflammatory agent, and interfering with the inflammation-related disease process, as nicotine has vasoconstrictive effects.[37]

With regard to neurological diseases, a large body of evidence suggests that the risks of Parkinson's disease or Alzheimer's disease might be twice as high for non-smokers than for smokers.[38] Many such papers regarding Alzheimer's disease[39] and Parkinson's Disease[40] have been published. More recent studies find that there's no beneficial link between smoking and Alzheimer's, and in some cases suggest that it actually results in an earlier onset of the disease.[41][42][43][44]

Recent studies have indicated that nicotine can be used to help adults suffering from Autosomal dominant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy. The same areas that cause seizures in that form of epilepsy are also responsible for processing nicotine in the brain.[45]

It has been noted that the majority of people diagnosed with schizophrenia smoke tobacco. Estimates for the number of schizophrenics that smoke range from 75% to 90%. It was recently argued that the increased level of smoking in schizophrenia may be due to a desire to self-medicate with nicotine.[46][47] More recent research has found the reverse, that it is a risk factor without long-term benefit, used only for its short term effects.[48] All of these studies are based only on observation, and no interventional (randomized) studies have been done. Research on nicotine as administered through a patch or gum is ongoing.

 

[Toby]

And I thought I always had the biased (and lacking in evidence) opinion that nicotine is good for yoou! (Please don't quote me!)

 

[Lithium1330]

And I thought I always had the biased (and lacking in evidence) opinion that nicotine is good for yoou! (Please don't quote me!)

Me too! (sorry I quoted you ).

 

[Texas]

I guess this is why millions of people are addicted to french fries...lol
I wonder how much of the secret ingredient is placed into the McDonald's french fries..lol

 

[Vicks Vap-oh-Yeah]

Interesting read. I had no idea there was nicotine in tomatoes and potatoes. Now if you'll excuse me I need to go smoke some french fries.

Burning French Fries = Second-hand Smoke?

 

[Sunshyn]

A couple notes to go along with Sherid's paradox post.

I've run across a few references that smoking is helpful for women with endometriosis. I assume this also has to do with that condition also being inflammation-related.

There was also an episode of House which hit some controversy because the doctor in it prescribed cigarettes to a patient with ulcerative colitis.