The only inaccuracy I saw in your article was this quote:
"I think that a lot of people who are promoting e-cigarettes say that it is a safer alternative but there is no evidence to suggest that it is," said Dr. Jonathan Whiteson of NYU Langone Medical Center. "As of now, we see it as delivering pure nicotine which is a dangerous drug in itself and it can cause people to become addicted to nicotine. So this is not a product sold to help people come away from cigarettes. It is a product that is sold to addict people to nicotine."
If e-cigarettes delivered “pure nicotine” the users would all be dead. E-cigarette liquid contains between 0 and 3.6% nicotine (in a cartridge that only holds from ½ to 1 ml of liquid. Each ml. of liquid produces about 300 puffs. Dr. Murray Laugesen delivered a poster presentation at the Dublin conference of the Society for Research on Nicotine and
tobacco.
He stated:
“Nicotine dose (Figure 2): An e-cigarette user will need to take more puffs more often, and deeper puffs confer no advantage for
v8 users. Six puffs every 5 minutes would deliver the same dose of nicotine delivered by shallow inhaling (10 puffs of 35 mL per puff) from one
tobacco cigarette every hour, but would not achieve the high immediate nicotine boost which many smokers crave. Nicotine overdose is unlikely, even though nicotine delivery may vary between brands.”
http://www.healthnz.co.nz/DublinEcigBenchtopHandout.pdf
E-cigarettes are being marketed to people who already use nicotine. Several surveys show that the average consumer has smoked for many years and tried repeatedly to quit before switching to an e-cigarette. So e-cigarettes ARE being used by those who want to quit inhaling smoke, with very high levels of success.
Over 90% of consumers report that their health has improved and none have reported that their health has become worse since switching.
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If e-cigarettes were sold with the purpose of addicting people to nicotine, they would need to raise blood levels of nicotine rapidly. Vansickel et al. reported that this is not the case.
Vansickel AR, Cobb CO, Weaver MF, Eissenberg TE. A clinical laboratory model for evaluating the acute effects of electronic "cigarettes": nicotine delivery profile and cardiovascular and subjective effects. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2010 Aug;19(8):1945-53. Epub 2010 Jul 20.
http://www.casaa.org/files/Virgiania Commonwealth University Study.pdf
So, I offer the above information in hopes that it might help you in writing future articles. I am seeing that many medical people have not bothered to read the research and are making statements that are totally unsupported by facts and evidence.
