NCI pays Rosswell to pay smokers to use far less hazardous smokeless tobacco

[Bill Godshall]

NCI pays Rosswell to pay smokers to use far less hazardous smokeless tobacco
Roswell study will pay smokers, smokeless tobacco users - The Refresh Buffalo Blog | The Buffalo News


This might be the first THR study NCI has ever funded, although Richard O'Connor was a member of the FDA contracted IOM Committee that refused to acknowledge that smokeless tobacco was less hazardous than cigarettes when it urged FDA to require smokeless tobacco companies to spend tens of millions of dollars on research to apply for approval as a MRTP (which the FDA did, and nobody has yet to submit an MRTP application).

 

[rothenbj]

I was the first commenter-

I can tell you the attitude of one 43 year, 2-3 PAD smoker who spend six months using e cigs to try to get off cigarettes. Vaping got me down to a half dozen cigarettes a day for those six months. Unfortunately, I started getting tired of charging batteries and cleaning equipment and my cigarette consumption started raising slowly. Enter smokeless tobacco.

After decades of listening to the sales pitch that smokeless was worse than smoking (in most cases a lie), members of the E Cigarette Forum started talking to me about Swedish snus. I listened but didn't believe at first. However reading studies on the net for a few weeks convinced me it was orders of magnitude safer than smoking. I bought my first snus 3 and one half years and one day ago. That also signifies the last time I took a drag on a cigarette.

It won't work for everyone, but one less smoker is one stroke for better health.

 

[Placebo Effect]

The fact that NCI has funded this study sets a precedent for future studies. Great to see this regardless of the outcome.

To their credit, Roswell employs Dr. Maciej Goniewicz, who has done some genuine public health, nuts and bolts research on e-cigarettes.

Levels of selected carcinogens and toxicants in vapour from electronic cigarettes -- Goniewicz et al. -- Tobacco Control
Nicotine Levels in Electronic Cigarettes

"Nicotine is not very dangerous, and it's very unlikely someone will overdose on the nicotine in electronic cigarettes by inhaling the vapour," says Maciej Goniewicz from Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, New York - an oncologist who has analysed e-cigarettes and the vapours they produce.

He says that in the absence of research into the effects of long-term vaping, it is impossible to say that e-cigarettes are absolutely safe, but we know enough to say they are safer than the real thing. There is no such thing as passive vaping.

BBC News - E-cigarettes: Is a smoking alternative being choked by regulation?

Although I question whether Goniewicz really said that passive vaping doesn't exist.

 

[Petrodus]

Far less hazardous !!
That implies E-cigarettes are also hazardous

 

[NorthOfAtlanta]

Far less hazardous !!
That implies E-cigarettes are also hazardous

In his position I might say the same thing, it's a CYA statement in case something does show up in the future.

 

[Petrodus]

 

[Vocalek]

The fact that NCI has funded this study sets a precedent for future studies. Great to see this regardless of the outcome.

To their credit, Roswell employs Dr. Maciej Goniewicz, who has done some genuine public health, nuts and bolts research on e-cigarettes.

Although I question whether Goniewicz really said that passive vaping doesn't exist.

Maybe he was using logic and common sense. His research showed that levels of the toxicants in vapor inhaled by the consumer were 9-450 times lower than in cigarette smoke and were, in many cases, comparable with trace amounts found in the reference product (a medicinal nicotine inhaler). We know from many studies that exhaled vapor contains lower levels of toxicants than inhaled vapor. So, maybe what he means is that "If you're thinking that 'passive vaping' is similar to 'passive smoking', you're way off base."

I'd love to see the toxicants measured in a chamber where vapor has been exhaled compared to the list of toxicants inhaled when standing on a street corner during rush hour in any large city, or even toxicants inhaled when sitting in a restaurant where food is grilled over an open fire.

 

[NorthOfAtlanta]

Better yet, any 10 ANTZ kitchens for a week, wonder if they would go on an uncooked vegan diet after that. But they would need a list of nicotine containing veggies to save their children.

 

[AgentAnia]

....I'd love to see the toxicants measured in a chamber where vapor has been exhaled compared to the list of toxicants inhaled when standing on a street corner during rush hour in any large city, or even toxicants inhaled when sitting in a restaurant where food is grilled over an open fire.

Or my neighbor's apartment, where there's a Glade scented plug-in in every room puffing out allergy-inducing god-knows-what chemicals...

 

[Vocalek]

Or my neighbor's apartment, where there's a Glade scented plug-in in every room puffing out allergy-inducing god-knows-what chemicals...

Yuck!

Sometimes in public restrooms I have to hold my breath to avoid losing my lunch.