For electronic cigarettes, increased popularity means increased scrutiny.

[mpetva]

South Bend Tribune: For electronic cigarettes, increased popularity means increased scrutiny.

Partial Quote:

"The product is safe," he said. "The nicotine isn't going to kill you."

Maybe not, but according to Paul Guentert, a pulmonary and critical care physician at Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center, nicotine contributes to hypertension and increases the risk of stroke and heart disease. It also is highly addictive.

"Nicotine is, in other parts of the world, used as a pesticide," Guentert said. "It is a neuro-toxin, and in high enough doses ... if a child ingests nicotine, it can be fatal."

The vapor produced by e-cigarettes is also unhealthy, he said.

"What I tell people in general about smoking is that your lungs were developed to take in clean, fresh air," he said, "and anything beyond that is usually not good for you."

In other words, the only safe cigarette is an extinguished cigarette.

 

[Slighter]

Biased, Poorly researched, paraphrased and generalized quotes from one medical pov. That last line - no quotes there and we all know about opinions and what they are like. Articles like this continue to focus on the mall shops and ignore or are ignorant of the informed and varied resellers that most all here use.

 

[Turco Chips]

and if a child gets a hold of yer analogs and eats 'em they can die too...

If a dingo gets a hold of yer baby it'll eat it.

If you don't look both ways before you cross the street you could get hit by a car.

If you don't chew yer food good you could choke and die.

If a doctor leave an instrument inside you during surgury you could die and the doc.
could lose his license and/or get sued for all he's worth.

These "if" arguments are getting really old.

TC

 

[JustFolly]

That's incredible. That Physician must be either enraged by how his words have been twisted, or else completely out of touch. We're in contact with "poisons" daily. A few GRAMS of Caffeine will kill any human, if directly ingested. However, like the nicotine in e-cigs, it is diluted to a safe level before being consumed.

In addition, the statement about "unhealthy vapor" seems completely off-the-cuff and based off an unscientific "rule of thumb". I hope that this man was pressured to make broad remarks and clumsily misquoted, because it's a shameful breach of scientific rigor. At any rate, this man doesn't appear to be a research Physician, and it really shows. Maybe he should stick to his work in the ED, and let the Physicians conducting studies do the talking.

[/rant by a Pre-Medical student and all-purpose lab rat]

 

[ZorbaTheGreek]

What I tell people in general about smoking is that your lungs were developed to take in clean, fresh air," he said, "and anything beyond that is usually not good for you.

Clean, fresh air, got it. I'll just pop out for a breath.

 

[reeds101]

^^^That's a whole lotta vapin' going on!

 

[quasimod]

Medical mistakes: Approximately 200,000 deaths per year in the US alone.

Electronic Cigarettes: Approximately 0 deaths per year.

Hmmmm....

 

[DaBrat]

I LOVE, just LOVE how they find all these people to interview and NONE abosolutely NONE have enough brass to make a comparison to regular analogs. Have not seen one say, given their druthers, they would rather see a patient toking on an analog.

Does anyone think that these people are secret contributors to ASH? Or maybe these so-called doctors are paying too much attention to the Chantix sales people! Or maybe, just maybe the Chantix reps are simply paying too much!

 

[ChipCurtis]

I LOVE, just LOVE how they find all these people to interview and NONE abosolutely NONE have enough brass to make a comparison to regular analogs.

They purposely avoid the comparison to analogs because they are following a certain set of TALKING POINTS established by the anti's. To move beyond this and actually get into SCIENCE would be detrimental to, and beyond the scope of, their political agenda.

For them, it's simply about being on "a side", any side, that has $$ and influence. "Talking Points" are the way it's done: to repeat and repeat the same boilerplate dogma over and over until it's sunk in to most of the population that it's the "truth".

In fact, we can see that ECA, ECF, and other pro-e-cig organizations are trying to use the same tactic -- we may really have no other choice because this is the way politics and media work. Bombard the media with our claims (even though they're the truth) as much as possible. It takes money of course.