GRRR - Terrible Article by Widely Read Journalist

[kristin]

Dr. Siegel is a long-time supporter of e-cigarettes as THR. People should subscribe to his blog because he often makes arguments we can then use against ANTZ. It's a shame he doesn't support ST as THR, but there are others who do.

If you go to the CASAA news blog, there is a list of links in the sidebar to other good THR expert's blogs, too: CASAA

Carl Phillips, Brad Rodu, Paul Bergen, Michael Siegel, Christopher Snowdon, Clive Bates, to name a few, are all "must-read" for anyone interested in tobacco control, harm reduction, ANTZ behavior and what's going on with e-cigarettes.

 

[Vocalek]

http://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/search?q="electronic+cigarettes"&max-results=20&by-date=true

I dont know who this guy is but I like him(it is a bit tldr but worth a read).

He is Dr. Michael Siegel, of Boston University's School of Public Health. He brings a note of sanity to the issues of tobacco control. He has published a review of the toxicology studies on e-cigarettes, the results of a survey of e-cigarette consumers, and co-authored an opinion piece on achieving tobacco harm reduction through encouraging use of e-cigarettes.


Cahn Z, Siegel M. Electronic cigarettes as a harm reduction strategy for tobacco control: A step forward or a repeat of past mistakes? Journal of Public Health Policy advance online publication 9 December 2010; doi: 10.1057/jphp.2010.41. http://www.ecosmoke.com.ar/article.jphp.pdf

Siegel MB, Tanwar KL, Wood KS. Electronic cigarettes as smoking cessation tool: Results from an Online Survey. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 2011 Apr; 40(4):472-5. http://www.stop-tabac.ch/fra/images...op_tabac/seigel e cigs am j prev med 2011.pdf . (accessed July 2012)

Wagener TL, Siegel M, Borrelli B. Electronic cigarettes: achieving a balanced perspective. Addiction. 2012 Sep;107(9):1545-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2012.03826.x. Epub 2012 Apr 4. Electronic cigarettes: achieving a balanced perspective - Wagener - 2012 - Addiction - Wiley Online Library

Wagener TL, Siegel M, Borrelli B. Let's keep our 'eye on the ball': reducing tobacco-related harm. Addiction. 2012 Sep;107(9):1554-5. doi: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2012.04012.x. LET'S KEEP OUR []EYE ON THE BALL’: REDUCING TOBACCO-RELATED HARM - WAGENER - 2012 - Addiction - Wiley Online Library

 

[Placebo Effect]

How E-Cigarette Alarmists Endanger Smokers' Lives, or Why Eli Lake Should Not Switch Back to Marlboros - Hit & Run : Reason.com

 

[Petrodus]

Truth seems to be snow-balling recently.

I'm sure the FDA wishes they could have started regulating
Before the Election !!

 

[Placebo Effect]

www. thedailybeast .com/articles/2013/01/31/my-electronic-cigarette-addiction.html
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I co-authored a response to this inaccurate, misleading article with Jeff Stier of the National Center for Public Policy Research

Daily Beast Homeland Security reporter Eli Lake recently stepped outside of his area of expertise to pen a column entitled “My (Electronic) Cigarette Addiction.” In the article, Lake explains how the use of smoke-free electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) allowed him to achieve something that, for him and so many others, was ever-elusive—abstinence from smoking.

This kind of inspirational story is typical of e-cigarette users, many of whom were inveterate smokers who had tried and failed to quit repeatedly with cessation aids such as the nicotine patch, gum, and lozenge, as well as pharmaceutical products like Chantix.

Unfortunately, Lake did not apply the same journalistic vigor to this article that he does to his homeland security pieces. In order to learn more about e-cigarettes, Lake sought the opinion of Dr. Lowell Dale of the Mayo Clinic’s Tobacco Quitline. Dale, who has never published on the topic of e-cigarettes and appears to have no expertise in the area, told Lake that propylene glycol—the main ingredient in some brands of e-cigarettes—is “like antifreeze.” Lake accepted the comment as fact, and even concluded his article with the grim realization that he had probably been inhaling “Chinese-made antifreeze.”

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[DC2]

I co-authored a response to this inaccurate, misleading article with Jeff Stier of the National Center for Public Policy Research

Was this a comment to the article, or a response you guys sent in to the editor or something?

 

[Placebo Effect]

Was this a comment to the article, or a response you guys sent in to the editor or something?

The latter.

 

[Lilkurty]

Just checked back on this article and comments are still going...up to 161...Eli got hishanded to him quite royally!