Important!SEMINAR: Are Safer Cigarettes a Corporate Ploy, and FDA Mistake?

[mpetva]

Shouldn't members of CASAA and/or ECA attend????


Are Safer Cigarettes a Corporate Ploy, and FDA Mistake? | BU Today

A panel discussion with Patrick Basham of the Democracy Institute, Cheryl Healton of the American Legacy Foundation, and Michael Siegel, a professor in the department of community health sciences at the BU School of Public Health, will follow Connolly’s talk. The event is free and open to the public and includes an audience question-and-answer session.

You’ve criticized the FDA for coming down hard on e-cigarettes, battery-powered devices that provide tobaccoless doses of nicotine in a vaporized solution. Some argue that e-cigarettes appear to be a relatively safe and effective quit-smoking device — what do you make of the FDA warnings about their possible harmful ingredients?
The presence of e-cigarettes essentially nullifies the entire FDA search for a safer cigarette. Since we now have a nontobacco product available that is acceptable to smokers as a substitute, it makes any reduced risk tobacco product inappropriate. If you know you have a product that doesn’t deliver tobacco, just nicotine, why would the federal government tell the public to use a product that does contain tobacco? Isn’t there a contradiction here if the FDA bans electronic cigarettes, but sanctions tobacco cigarettes?

 

[cluster]

Excellent article thanks.

 

[mpetva]

deleted due to event being over

 

[boxhead]

in boston? i asked by e-mail if their going to webcast this because i am in cali...

 

[AnnaCoop]

I'm a little confused, the picture along side the article said the confrence was going to be held Friday Oct 23rd from 9-noon. That would have been two days ago.


Anna

 

[mpetva]

I'm a little confused, the picture along side the article said the confrence was going to be held Friday Oct 23rd from 9-noon. That would have been two days ago.
Anna

OOOPS!!!!!
Yes, you are right. It looks like it has already taken place. Sorry, I found this late in the night and must have been too tired to see the date

 

[Webby]

OOOPS!!!!!
Yes, you are right. It looks like it has already taken place. Sorry, I found this late in the night and must have been too tired to see the date

No harm - no foul mpetva.

Please forward anything like this on to us in the CASAA forum! We bumping the 1000 member mark and I'm sure there is someone close enough to attend pretty much any event in the US and "iReport" it for us!

 

[mpetva]

No harm - no foul mpetva.

Please forward anything like this on to us in the CASAA forum! We bumping the 1000 member mark and I'm sure there is someone close enough to attend pretty much any event in the US and "iReport" it for us!

OK, I wasn't sure where to post this, but wanted as many people as possible to see it, so I put it in the General section. But will gladly post any find like this in the CASAA section

 

[AnnaCoop]

OOOPS!!!!!
Yes, you are right. It looks like it has already taken place. Sorry, I found this late in the night and must have been too tired to see the date

Don't worry I have those moments all the time. I wonder how it went?

 

[CJsKee]

I hope Dr. Siegel reports on it in his blog HERE