Dr. Keith on FOX News

[pcrdude]

Quote:

And while it is not known precisely how safe they are, I conclude the following from my clinical experiences:
1) It is time for the National Institutes of Health to fund a large-scale study to determine if electronic cigarettes as a form of nicotine delivery help people stop smoking. Asking electronic cigarette companies to fund such research themselves is a needless roadblock to getting much-needed answers. Cancer kills too many Americans and people around the world to wait.
2) It is time for doctors to consider whether to recommend electronic cigarettes to their patients, as smoking cessation tools or even longer-term nicotine delivery systems, in advance of findings from any study undertaken by the NIH. I believe most doctors would agree they would happily have a child of theirs transition (hopefully, temporarily) to electronic cigarettes in a (possibly successful) effort to quit tobacco. If it is good enough for our families, it ought be good enough for any family.


Read more: Dr. Keith's clinical results of 3 patients who quit smoking with e-cigs | Fox News​

Not entirely accurate, but overall what we on ECF believe.

mods, please edit/delete/modify as you see fit.

 

[2coils]

I love the fact that doctors are getting on board. All of my families doctors have given a big thumbs up to e-cigs. The truth cant be ignored by the FDA forever. And from the article.....holding up needed research on electronic cigarettes is indefensible and holding up their dissemination, in advance of that research, is, almost certainly, unwise. well said!

 

[Bill Godshall]

I've been urging folks at NIH and FDA to conduct or fund studies on e-cigarettes since 2009, with no success.

It appears FDA doesn't want to study e-cigs because the research findings would thoroughly refute all of FDA false and misleading fear mongering claims about e-cigs.

Meanwhile, NCI has funded many opponents of e-cigarettes and THR, whose published articles editorialize against THR and misrepresent the evidence.