Interview with Peter Hajek

[DrMA]

Highlights (emphasis added):

«If e-cigarettes are allowed to continue evolving and competing with conventional cigarettes, and if medical professionals and the media inform smokers truthfully about their harms relative to smoking, there is a good chance that within the next ten years smoking will be obsolete and some years later, smoking-related death and disease will virtually disappear.»

«Representatives of some well known public health and medical bodies in the UK and USA went on record with assertions that e-cigarettes are as harmful as or even more harmful than cigarettes. This kind of deception must be in breach of professional ethics, whatever the motivation behind it.

It would appear that what is behind this activism is an entrenched belief that nicotine use by itself, even if it is not associated with any ill effects, represents a sinful or corrupting indulgence and should not be allowed. Paradoxically, people who hold this belief see no problem at all with their own mild dependence on coffee and recreational use of alcohol.»

The research behind giving up cigarettes: a Q&A with leading expert Peter Hajek - On Health

 

[Lessifer]

Excellent piece. I wonder why he didn't mention the financial motives of governments, BP, BT, and the alphabet TC groupies.

When an organization whose sole purpose is to fight tobacco, and whose funding is based on the public's belief in the need for such organizations, vehemently opposes a product that could potentially rid the world of tobacco abuse, it should make you go "hmmm...."

 

[Kent C]

Paradoxically, people who hold this belief see no problem at all with their own mild dependence on coffee and recreational use of alcohol.»

....and Government grants and tax money.

 

[CarolT]

...there is a good chance that within the next ten years smoking will be obsolete and some years later, smoking-related death and disease will virtually disappear.»

Weasel-words, because those charlatans manufacture those supposed smoking-related deaths and disease by using the proportion of smokers in the population (plus the Cancer Society's bogus relative risks) to calculate what proportion of total deaths are supposedly "smoking-related." So, as long as there are any smokers at all, they can pretend there are "smoking-related deaths," even if not a single one of those deaths had anything to do with smoking.

 

[Lessifer]

Weasel-words, because those charlatans manufacture those supposed smoking-related deaths and disease by using the proportion of smokers in the population (plus the Cancer Society's bogus relative risks) to calculate what proportion of total deaths are supposedly "smoking-related." So, as long as there are any smokers at all, they can pretend there are "smoking-related deaths," even if not a single one of those deaths had anything to do with smoking.

True, but if smoking becomes "obsolete" they can no longer blame those deaths on smoking, so when there isn't a significant change in the death rates, they'll have to find a new demon to blame. Or just accept the fact that sometimes people die.

 

[catlady60]

It would appear that what is behind this activism is an entrenched belief that nicotine use by itself, even if it is not associated with any ill effects, represents a sinful or corrupting indulgence and should not be allowed. Paradoxically, people who hold this belief see no problem at all with their own mild dependence on coffee and recreational use of alcohol.»

In other words, the ANTZ are Grade AA hypocritical BIGOTS! It's ok to get drunk in the evening and wired on coffee in the morning, but let a person vape and right away they're sitting in judgment, condemning vapers to hell as if God died and left them in charge.

 

[catlady60]

....and Government grants and tax money.

...not to mention funding from BP for their foregone conclusions and propaganda campaigns nicotine research.

 

[caramel]

In other words, the ANTZ are Grade AA hypocritical BIGOTS! It's ok to get drunk in the evening and wired on coffee in the morning, but let a person vape and right away they're sitting in judgment, condemning vapers to hell as if God died and left them in charge.

That's what they get paid for. From your tax money.

 

[firechick]

In other words, the ANTZ are Grade AA hypocritical BIGOTS! It's ok to get drunk in the evening and wired on coffee in the morning, but let a person vape and right away they're sitting in judgment, condemning vapers to hell as if God died and left them in charge.

Where I'm from, this is called "Sinning all week and getting saved on Sunday". A good number of our politicians and leaders are proficient in it's use, unfortunately.

 

[DC2]

That's what they get paid for. From your tax money.

They should at least give me a reach-around.

 

[philoshop]

They should at least give me a reach-around.

Actually they do....but it's only to check your front pockets.