JAMA launches assault on e-cigs to lobby for FDA regulations, fails to dislcose Big Pharma conflicts of interest

[Bill Godshall]

Today's Journal of the American Medical Association contained several articles and editorials by e-cig opponents that repeated false and misleading claims about e-cigs, and that lobbied for FDA regulations on e-cigs.

The following three articles are free to the public.

Experts call for research plus regulation of e-cigarettes
JAMA Network | JAMA | Experts Call for Research Plus Regulation of e-Cigarettes

e-Cigarettes
JAMA Network | JAMA | e-Cigarettes

JAMA – The medical letter on drug and therapeutics: Electronic Cigarettes
JAMA Network | JAMA | Electronic Cigarettes


The following articles in JAMA cost money, but I'll be pleased to send a free copy to those who send an e-mail request to me at smokefree@compuserve.com

Viewpoint
Promise and Peril of e-Cigarettes: Can Disruptive Technology Make Cigarettes Obsolete?
JAMA. 2014;311(2):135-136. doi:10.1001/jama.2013.28534
David B. Abrams
JAMA Network | JAMA | Promise and Peril of e-Cigarettes:  Can Disruptive Technology Make Cigarettes Obsolete?

CDC: Use of Emerging tobacco Products Increasing Among US Youths
JAMA. 2014;311(2):124. doi:10.1001/jama.2013.285837.
Mike Mitka
JAMA Network | JAMA | CDC: Use of Emerging Tobacco Products Increasing Among US Youths

tobacco Control and Progress
JAMA. 2014;311(2):133-134. doi:10.1001/jama.2013.284534.
Tom Frieden
JAMA Network | JAMA | Tobacco Control Progress and Potential

JAMA Editorial
Tobacco Control 50 years after the 1964 Surgeon General’s Report
JAMA. 2014;311(2):141-143. doi:10.1001/jama.2013.285243.
Stephen Schroeder, Howard Koh
JAMA Network | JAMA | Tobacco Control 50 Years After the 1964 Surgeon General

The war against tobacco: 50 years and counting
JAMA. 2014;311(2):131-132. doi:10.1001/jama.2013.280767.
Helene Cole, Michael Fiore
JAMA Network | JAMA | The War Against Tobacco:  50 Years and Counting


The JAMA issue also contained the following article touting a study treating smokers with varenicline (i.e. Chantix) and burproprian, whose authors issued the following press release.
Combined therapy benefits cigarette smokers trying to quit compared to monotherapy

Combination Varenicline and Bupropion SR for Tobacco-Dependence Treatment in Cigarette Smokers: A Randomized Trial
JAMA. 2014;311(2):155-163. doi:10.1001/jama.2013.283185
Jon O. Ebbert, Dorothy K. Hatsukami, Ivana T. Croghan, Darrell R. Schroeder, Sharon S. Allen, J. Taylor Hays, Richard D. Hurt
JAMA Network | JAMA | Combination Varenicline and Bupropion SR for Tobacco-Dependence Treatment in Cigarette Smokers:  A Randomized Trial

 

[DrMA]

This is very disconcerting... I'd like to read the other articles, but I fear that would be highly detrimental to my cardiovascular health. My blood pressure already went thru the roof reading the free editorials.

 

[Sundodger]

Hey fellow vapers. If you scroll all the way to the bottom there is a "contact us" line. It only allows for 1000 characters but anything is always better than nothing.
I sent comments for each individual article. Copied what they said was untrue or a stretch and pointed it out. Like where they say e-cig manufacturers sell and claim they are quit smoking devices. They should know, if anyone, that no one selling e-cigs in the U.S. can make that claim. Just one of many falsehoods I found.
Have fun!

 

[rwoodin]

Looks like maybe a new year b.s. blitz from the vested interests gang of anti-ecigarette consortium. The author of the second free article link also is an obvious advocate of circumcision. Hmmm.... appears as if she is all for regulation of people from the get go.
(I won't post here JAMA article on circumcision but it is easily found with google search of authors name...Deborah Tolmach Sugerman, MSW)
Here is a post critical of her stance regarding that.. http://circleaks.blogspot.com/2013/08/circumcision-by-deborah-tolmach.html

 

[rwoodin]

People may start using e-cigarettes simply because they are less harmful than tobacco cigarettes. This may be especially true for young people, who are the targets for e-cigarette marketing. They might start using e-cigarettes and then add or switch to tobacco cigarettes or other tobacco products, which have severe known health risks.

Hey, those kids may start wrapping aluminum foil around their heads for all we know! Clearly, ecigs are just the on ramp for the road to hell. And while we are at it, those jelly beans have been a public health menace since prehistoric times. We need to ban them...NOW!
Excuse me, just following the articles insanity with some equally insane statements of my own...