Kate51 wrote:
I could not answer the questionaire at all, the questions do seem slanted toward another ASH can! Agree, this seems anti-tobacco, not pro people. Also questions and answers not really apply to ex-smoking vapers. Especially successful ones. Not representative to our cause at all.
Kate's claim is false and counterproductive.
I'm familiar with some of JF Etter's previous surveys, which I considered
excellent and highly objective.
A decade ago, his survey of 500 US smokers found only 16% agreed that
nicotine gum or patches help people quit smoking.
Etter JF, Perneger TV, Attitudes toward nicotine replacement therapy in
smokers and ex-smokers in the general public. Clinical Pharmocol Therapy
2001 Volume 69, 175-83
Unfortunately for public health, neither that important finding, nor the
meta analyses findings that 93% of NRT users switched back to cigarettes
within 6 months, have been reported by/in the news media nor acknowledged by
drug companies, government health agencies or drug industry funded anti
tobacco groups. Instead, they tell the public that NRT and Rx products are
the only effective and proven ways to quit smoking.
Also, the coauthor of this survey is Chris Bullen from New Zealand, who just coauthored (with Murray Laugesen) the first published clinical trial on e-cigarettes at:
http://www.healthnz.co.nz/2010 Bullen ECig.pdf
But in contrast to JF Etter's expectation of 1,500 survey participants by
December 2011, I suspect that 1,500 e-cigarette users could complete the
survey in the next week.
I have informed JF Etter of this, and (if that occurs) urged him to anaylze and publish the results of the survey in the next several months (instead of waiting until 2012, when e-cigarettes could be banned everywhere if intolerant prohibitionists get their way).