Obama's position on e-cigs ?

[DC2]

Here is the Boston University School of Medicine piece...
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/centers-institutes/population-development/files/article.jphp.pdf

Here is the New York Times article...
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/08/s...ve-some-unlikely-critics.html?_r=2&mid=522634

I have read (and can probably locate) all the rest of the items refered to but I'll have to do it later as I'm leaving shortly...

 

[rothenbj]

Yeah, I feel cheated I was never informed about the objective risks of smokeless tobacco, and it's really easy equation to work out.

25% of the population smokes. If a product is 75% less harmful, and this results in a maximum 4x increase, it's a net neutral.
If it's a 90% reduction in harm, again adopted by 100% of the population, it's a 30% net win.

And the objective evidence puts e-cigs well above 98-99%

In here lies the rub and I'm going to take this to the most basic level because I'm seriously disturbed by the news out of Penn State where despicable crimes may have been committed. Crimes against children, if true, are reprehensible. However, what would you call people making lots of money on the lies about relative risk of tobacco products that have resulted in millions of early deaths over the last several decades.

They have discussed morality in a microcosm at what may have happened in State College. Here we have not only past history, but continued denial of what could save lives, in the name of money.

 

[ecofriendy-smoking]

Many thanks to DC2 and Vocalek for those imformative links. It's time for more people to take this war over to facebook and twitter. The information is on our side.

 

[DC2]

Here is the Forbes article...
E-Cigarettes Should Be Promoted, Not Banned - Forbes

Here is the Royal College of Physicians...
www.tobaccoprogram.org/pdf/4fc74817-64c5-4105-951e-38239b09c5db.pdf

Here is the American Association of Public Health Physicians...
http://www.aaphp.org/Resources/Documents/20100207FDAPetition2.pdf

Here is the American Council on Science and Health...
NEJM editorial: e-cigarette users should resume smoking for their own good > Facts & Fears > ACSH
Smoke and mirrors behind FDA report on e-cigarettes > Facts & Fears > ACSH


I think that Harvard/Journal of Public Health/Boston University School of Medicine may all refer to the same thing....
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/centers-institutes/population-development/files/article.jphp.pdf

It seems that the Boston University School of Medicine did the study.
An article was printed in the Journal of Public Health.
And I think that is a Harvard publication.

Could be wrong though.

 

[Cool_Breeze]

Perhaps these links should be posted in a routinely updated sticky.

 

[rothenbj]

Many thanks to DC2 and Vocalek for those imformative links. It's time for more people to take this war over to facebook and twitter. The information is on our side.

You're so right. Although I don't have a tremendous number of FB friends I know a lot of them smoke or know smokers (certainly better than the 20% that supposedly smoke on average). If any of them read information and share it, we can get the information to a lot of people that don't spend the time some of us do.

 

[windwalker]

Wow! I fall asleep for a day and this thread really takes off!

Huge thanks to Vocalek and DC2 for answering ecofriendy-smoking's question about the sources I cited.

You folks are the awesomist!

I'd like to add two more links to the sources:

Publishing an excellent study done at Penn State College of Medicine - The International Journal of Clinical Practices: Electronic cigarettes (e-cigs): views of aficionados and clinical/public health perspectives - Foulds - 2011 - International Journal of Clinical Practice - Wiley Online Library (there are various forms and excerpts of this study spread far and wide, but this is the original highly credible source)

Here is the unabridged Penn State College of Medicine Study as it appeared in it's entirety in the International Journal of Clinical Practices: Electronic cigarettes (e-cigs): views of aficionados and clinical/public health perspectives - Foulds - 2011 - International Journal of Clinical Practice - Wiley Online Library

Here's a synopsis and nice little youtube video summarizing the study: Penn State Live - Video: Electronic cigarettes may offer an alternative for smokers

Here is the excellent 'General Letter of Advisement' regarding the regulation of Electronic Cigarettes from the American Association of Public Health Physicians: http://www.aaphp.org/Resources/Documents/20100402AAPHPEcigLegisStatemnt.pdf

Which includes: Joel L. Nitzkin, MD, MPH, Chair, AAHPHP Tobacco Control Task Force, extremely wonderful quote:

"A cigarette smoker can reduce his or her risk of future tobacco-related death by 98% or
better by switching to a low risk smokeless tobacco product. He or she could cut that risk by 99.9% or better by switching to a nicotine-only delivery product like one of the pharmaceutical products or E-cigarettes."​

Thanks to everyone here for stimulating this thread! As enthusiasts and advocates, every discussion we have here has a massive potential of echoing out into the social sphere...

After all -

"The E-Cig is our #1 Weapon in the War on Smoking-Related Disease and Death!"​

 

[ecofriendy-smoking]

Nice job finding a video excerpt! But on a side note, of all the days for us to reference a Penn State study What a sad situation taking place over there.