E-Cigarettes Pose No Risk of Heart Disease, Study Finds

[Spazmelda]

E-Cigarettes Pose No Risk of Heart Disease, Study Finds - Businessweek

I think this is a news piece about our Greek cardiologist's study!

 

[DPLongo22]

You can watch a VapeTV version of his exact presentation, if you wish. It was posted here on ECF awhile back. Here's the link (it's three hours long so Heads-Up!).

VPLive Vape Team Episode #25: Proof Positive - YouTube

 

[DPLongo22]

E-Cigarettes Pose No Risk of Heart Disease, Study Finds - Businessweek

I think this is a news piece about our Greek cardiologist's study!

And yes, it certainly IS.

 

[Dimitris]

Also here is the press release from the European Society of Cardiology

noodls® › gateway to facts | Electronic cigarettes do not damage the heart

We will have an interview with Dr K about his presentation announced soon.

 

[Fiamma]

There is going to be severe distress in the pharmaceutical executive offices and the antz groups I predict. Everyone and his paid for shill are going to be out screaming in denial of this report and these articles. Too bad Bloomberg didn't print the whole thing.

Hooray for our side

 

[Mac]

Thank you for this.

 

[NorthOfAtlanta]

There is going to be severe distress in the pharmaceutical executive offices and the antz groups I predict. Everyone and his paid for shill are going to be out screaming in denial of this report and these articles. Too bad Bloomberg didn't print the whole thing.

Hooray for our side

I think it's going to be fun to watch the spin that will be used by the ANTZ on this one, at first ignore and then attack. I might spend some time tonight posting this on some ANTZ sites under the heading "E-cigarettes effect on heart function" it might stay up a while longer under that heading. We need them to fight it so more people read it as it puts the lie to one of their favorite "bad" things about nicotine use in any non burning method.

 

[TTK]

Let's all keep in mind that the nature of "scientific proof" is that any experiment or study must be replicated by other scientists and studies to become accepted as hard facts in the medical/scientific community. Hopefully this study will be the catalyst that promotes further study.

 

[Vocalek]

I think it's going to be fun to watch the spin that will be used by the ANTZ on this one, at first ignore and then attack. I might spend some time tonight posting this on some ANTZ sites under the heading "E-cigarettes effect on heart function" it might stay up a while longer under that heading. We need them to fight it so more people read it as it puts the lie to one of their favorite "bad" things about nicotine use in any non burning method.

Excellent idea. I just posted it here: American Heart Association

 

[kia2]

Excellent idea. I just posted it here: American Heart Association

Do they have to approve it first...?

 

[Vocalek]

I did a FB search on "tobacco policy" and posted this:

Save the life of a smoker. New research on effects of electronic cigarettes on heart: E-Cigarettes Pose No Risk of Heart Disease, Study Finds - Businessweek

Posted Here:

CDC Tobacco Free - Government Organization - Atlanta, GA | Facebook
American Heart Association
Smoke-Free Texas | Facebook
University of Kentucky College of Nursing | Facebook
National Center for Tobacco Policy | Facebook
South Carolina Tobacco-Free Collaborative | Facebook
Center for Public Health & Tobacco Policy - Local Business - Boston, MA | Facebook
Madison County Agency for Substance Abuse Policy - Medical & Health - Richmond, KY | Facebook
Tobacco Policy Research program, ETSU | Facebook
IPFW Tobacco Free Task Force | Facebook
Tobacco Free Policy Summit | Facebook
University of Mary - Tobacco Free Policy | Facebook
Make PSU Tobacco Free | Facebook
Tobacco-Free MSU | Facebook
Fight against the westchester community college anti tobacco policy | Facebook
Smokers againts Tobacco Free Salem State | Facebook
Smoke-Free San Diego - Non-Profit Organisation - San Diego, CA | Facebook
Western Wisconsin Working for Tobacco Free Living (W3TFL) | Facebook

Can’t post
Smoke-Free North Dakota | Facebook (I suspect I've been blocked.)

 

[VapApe]

Now we need to go and like the heck out of it.

 

[NorthOfAtlanta]

Just went through them trying to like them all, the ones that apparently have removed it already are smoke free Tx, etsu, ipfw, msu and westchester college. Figured it would be ignore to start with.

 

[NorthOfAtlanta]

Just realized Winchester is an anti-smokefree group, guess they don't like the fact that e-cigs are safer than smoking.

 

[VapApe]

Heck I have been kick out of lot better places

 

[afrazier5]

I've posted it on all tobacco/smoke free FB groups I 'like' - about the same number as Elaine above. This included the ALA/AHA of Utah and our state/county health departments. I've also emailed the top hospitals, cancer institute and other health agencies along with the government. Been a BUSY day of online advocacy!

 

[JENerationX]

Liking all of these... oh and apparently Electricman found the one on the American Heart Association.

Edit: apparently he went through and found ALL of them and copied and pasted his comment. Does this guy work?

 

[Vocalek]

Liking all of these... oh and apparently Electricman found the one on the American Heart Association.

Edit: apparently he went through and found ALL of them and copied and pasted his comment. Does this guy work?

Uh-huh. His ingenious comment reads:

Why don't you post the truth about what was said besides your warped 1/2 truth like usual that casaa likes to hide behind....the more you addict to your drug device the more your "harm reduction" site profits from ....what a shame

Hmmm.... I should have posted "the truth about what was said" instead of stating: "New research on effects of electronic cigarettes on heart."

OK, let me try that again.

Well, OK, if you insist! The story published in Business Week on 8/25/2012 stated, "E-cigarettes, electronic tubes that simulate the effect of smoking by producing nicotine vapor, prompted no adverse effects on cardiac function in the study, researchers from the Athens- based Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center said in a report presented at the European Society of Cardiology annual meeting in Munich today."

Is that truthful enough for you?

 

[Vocalek]

I just noticed that part of Electricman's comman was hidden. The rest reads:

"I can say that electronic cigarettes are not a healthy habit, but they are a safer alternative to tobacco cigarettes," Dr Konstantinos Farsalinos (Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Kallithea, Greece) told a press conference here at the European Society of Cardiology 2012 Congress. "Humans are made to inhale clean air, so I think everything else you inhale is not healthy; I cannot say this is absolutely healthy. In his small study, Farsalinos and colleagues measured myocardial function using echocardiography before and after smoking one tobacco cigarette in 20 young daily smokers aged 25 to 45 years of age However, he acknowledges the research—which compared the effects of electronic cigarettes on the heart with those of tobacco cigarettes, in less than 50 people—is preliminary, and much more study is needed

So I added a comment:

The relevant statement in the passage my good friend Izzy quoted is, "...but they are a safer alternative to tobacco cigarettes."

Note: This is on the CDC Tobacco FB page: http://www.facebook.com/cdctobaccofree

 

[VapApe]

We have know for some time he/she/it dose comes here to read posts.

E man was a long time member of a quit smoking support forum, hated NRT, And when E ciggs were started to be used by some.
E man went off the deep end attacking every thing NRT or e cigg and any one using them .
The owner of the forum ended up having to give E man the boot.
E man is the poster child of a bitter internet troll.