Electronic cigarette makers must prove safety of products
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Bill G. has addressed this issue:
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...acco-products-released-today.html#post4784633
This is, in essence, simply part of a commercial campaign aided by legislators to restrict the sales of harm-reduced products in order to protect the sales of NRTs.
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...acco-products-released-today.html#post4784633
This is, in essence, simply part of a commercial campaign aided by legislators to restrict the sales of harm-reduced products in order to protect the sales of NRTs.
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The USA Today Electronic cigarette makers must prove safety - USATODAY.com simply republished an incorrectly titled HealthDay article from Dec 14 Electronic Cigarette Makers Must Prove Safety of Products: Report - Yahoo! News that also appears to have prompted another incorrectly titled Oncology Report aticle at IOM Calls for Research on E-Cigs, Tobacco Lozenges.:.IMNG Oncology Report
On December 15, I exposed these inaccurately titled articles (in my weekly tobacco Harm Reduction Update e-mail newsletter) by stating.
I don't know why HealthDay editors chose to write that title (as editors typically write titles after reporters write/submit the article), but I suspect it was because something Ray Story told (or didn't tell) the reporter. Had Ray correctly told the reporter that the MRTP provision only applies to cigarettes and smokeless tobacco (and not e-cigarettes), I doubt if the inaccurate tiltle would have been written. And if the inaccurate title hadn't been first published by HealthDay, it wouldn't have been repeated by other lazy ... reporters and editors at other news outlets.
Ray's quoted statement in that news article (claiming that Big Tobacco companies are behind the FDA's opposition to smokefree alternatives) is totally inaccurate (and I've told Ray that many times), but he's made that claim to the news media before and suspect he will do so again in the future.
BTW if anyone wants to subscribe to my weekly Tobacco Harm Reduction Update e-mails, please send me an e-mail to smokefree@compuserve.com
On December 15, I exposed these inaccurately titled articles (in my weekly tobacco Harm Reduction Update e-mail newsletter) by stating.
I don't know why HealthDay editors chose to write that title (as editors typically write titles after reporters write/submit the article), but I suspect it was because something Ray Story told (or didn't tell) the reporter. Had Ray correctly told the reporter that the MRTP provision only applies to cigarettes and smokeless tobacco (and not e-cigarettes), I doubt if the inaccurate tiltle would have been written. And if the inaccurate title hadn't been first published by HealthDay, it wouldn't have been repeated by other lazy ... reporters and editors at other news outlets.
Ray's quoted statement in that news article (claiming that Big Tobacco companies are behind the FDA's opposition to smokefree alternatives) is totally inaccurate (and I've told Ray that many times), but he's made that claim to the news media before and suspect he will do so again in the future.
BTW if anyone wants to subscribe to my weekly Tobacco Harm Reduction Update e-mails, please send me an e-mail to smokefree@compuserve.com
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