Information Muddling .. Sad as Hell

[minimeatball]

Politics and money, if there's even a fundamental difference, is complicating the issue of e-cigarettes to a point of a nearly impenetrable lack of clarity.

We hear pharmaceutical companies oppose them because they stand to lose huge revenues generated by medical treatment for sick smokers.

Then we hear these same companies support it because they could bogart the devices and rake in profit from marketing them as a stop-smoking aid.

We hear the media bash them as dangerous, unregulated death tubes being used by a naive smoking populace.

We hear statistics that a startling number of health professionals believe that nicotine is the acting carcinogen in cigarettes.

Then we hear stifled research about the positive effects of nicotine. Then we hear hundreds of e-cigarette smokers spreading this information like we ought to believe what we're doing is as good as taking a vitamin.

We hear states, towns, and airports struggling to define and determine how to approach indoor vaping.

We hear government law officials reprimanding entities attempting to continue their long history of tobacco regulation.

And we hear state and local governments still flailing to regulate an as-yet unregulated, improperly researched device.

Then we hear that nicotine is not tobacco.

So what, in the world, is objective in this issue? Of course nothing!

I'm a happy vaper for now. I've just given up trying to make the case for anyone because it seems that now, for either side, there's no compelling case to make.

 

[jamie]

Mod, please move thread to an appropriate forum section.

Understand and appreciate your points Mini (however not a Health or Medical issue).

 

[RoseB]

It kind of is a health or medical issue. How many people eagerly offer themselves up for experimentation? Not many, and people who smoke know it's a death trap. All of the bureaucratic b.s. should be put on hold. Let the adults of the world put on their big boy/girl pants and ride this thing out. I for one am more than happy to have jumped into e cigarettes. My lungs are doing much better. I have the control of making my own e liquid, and knowing exactly what I am inhaling. So yeah...

 

[minimeatball]

Indeed! Everyone - particularly health professionals/researchers - need to put their big boy pants on, objectively test e cigarettes, and the media needs to plainly and unbiasedly report the information free of agenda and special interest. Maybe this is too much to ask?

 

[Steamix]

Indeed! Everyone - particularly health professionals/researchers - need to put their big boy pants on, objectively test e cigarettes, and the media needs to plainly and unbiasedly report the information free of agenda and special interest. Maybe this is too much to ask?

It is too much to ask for.

Big boy pants alright, the version with the deep pockets...

 

[minimeatball]

There are a lot of very intelligent, thoughtful people on this forum with a lot of information that sounds good. But, reality is, we're not scientists, and if any of us are, don't have the proper resources to actually find out exactly what we're doing. A lot of the speculation that I've heard about inhalation/exhalation content, effects on the body, etc, appear sound, but we don't know. I'm longing for some research from a source that I don't have to defend to stand behind.