Has this been responded to??

[LadyLynx]

This just gives me the chills, how far will people run with this?? Scaremongers are everywhere.

 

[LadyLynx]

Mine, with thanks for the ideas:

The piece on E-cigarettes reflects, in so many ways, some rather poor research and, I suspect, a strong preconceived bias against E-cigarette use. This is regrettable because e-cigarettes are proving to be a very effective way for many people to give up the far more unhealthful habit of smoking, people for whom other quit-smoking solutions have failed. On balance, the article does a disservice to health if it dissuades smokers from investigating the E-cigarette alternative.

To highlight some inaccuracies:

"The puff of hot gas reaches the lungs"
The more accurate word is "vapor" and its not "hot." At most, for people with customized battery setups, "warm" better describes it. And the normal e-cigarette delivers vapor at something more like room temperature.

You quote a price of $100 for a single E-cigarette.
While $100--and worse--is the sort of price offered by heavily advertised, and mostly rather unscrupulous, vendors, virtually of the better products can be purchased as complete kits for considerably less that--some as low as $30. The vendors who sell $100 E-cigarettes are also the ones who claim the "25-cigarette" cartridge capacity you quote. Two-to-three cigarettes is a more accurate equivalent. Refill liquids (which, by the way, come not in just tobacco flavors but a wide variety of food and drink flavors) vary greatly in price, but assuming realistically $.50 per milliliter and 2-3 ml average daily consumption, the E-cigarette user will likely spend less than $2 a day, and considerably less if they mix their own liquid.

You quote 54 mg/ml as an extra-high concentration. In fact, that is a concentration used by nobody. The high end offered by vendors and used undiluted is 36mg, with most people choosing, I would estimate, liquids in the 16-24 range. More importantly, you do not mention that many vendors sell liquid with zero nicotine, and many users gradually accomplish a goal of getting off nicotine entirely and continue with 0 mg to satisfy the non-nicotine aspects of their habits (or they quit entirely).

What you have to say about Doctors "say[ing] that using e-cigarettes is just substituting one dangerous vice for another" does not square with my experience with my own doctor or most of what I've heard from other users and their experiences doctors. "Vice?" Is that a medical term? It would be more accurate to say that one is substituting a demonstrably dangerous product for one that, by all indications, is a mere fraction as harmful. Yes--one retains a nicotine habit, just as one does when they switch from a cigarette habit to a nicotine gum habit. (And, in my experience, many or most nic gum users continue usage far beyond the doctor or product-indicated usage period).

Your assessment of the relative dangers between smoking and "vaping" (as some E-cigarette users call it) underestimates the differences between the two or three components of vaporized e-liquid and the 4000 chemicals and myriad chemical reactions
involved in inhaling combusted tobacco (and additives). I believe if you were to do a bit more--and a bit more unbiased--research, you would learn that, although nicotine is the addictive component of tobacco products, it is not the killer component.

I could go on, but in sum, I find your article an unfair and inaccurate appraisal of the E-cigarette. While it is obvious that everybody would be better off inhaling nothing but clean air, the harm-reduction that E-cigarettes represent in comparison to a tobacco cigarette is something that should be celebrated.

Thanks for listening.

Paul

Sir, Do you mind if i copy this and post it as well? You've stated your case so eloquently.

 

[PaulB]

Sir, Do you mind if i copy this and post it as well? You've stated your case so eloquently.

You're welcome to, of course.

 

[Cuss]

Propaganda is everywhere

Although they do seem to be pro pot. Which to me is an odd stance to take. Pot good e-cig bad? These people are a joke.

http://www.termlifeinsurance.org/15-things-you-should-know-about-........./

I agree that stuff is better for you than cigarettes on a whole, but all smoke still contains carcinogens. I'm glad to be smoke free.