Electronic cigarette opponents' arguments lack logic
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April 11, 2009
JACOB SULLUM jsullum@reason.com
The first time Tom Kiklas saw an electronic cigarette, he recalls, "I couldn't stand it . . . I thought, 'I don't want to be involved in this.' I'm an anti-smoking kind of guy."
But after Kiklas realized that electronic cigarettes deliver nicotine without tobacco or combustion products, thereby eliminating virtually all of the health hazards associated with smoking, he was comfortable becoming media relations director for inLife, one of the companies that sell the devices in the U.S. Unfortunately, many anti-smoking activists and public health officials are stuck in that first stage of visceral antipathy toward anything that resembles cigarettes, an emotional reaction that could prove deadly for smokers.
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