Observer-Dispatch: Electronic cigarette facts box

[BuGlen]

As the title would indicate, it's about the facts and none of the standard propaganda. The article is short and cites both the recent CASAA study and the Catania (Italy) study in summary. It's good to see these factual articles popping up lately.

Electronic cigarette facts box - Utica, NY - The Observer-Dispatch, Utica, New York

 

[AgentAnia]

Wow! Those are the only two studies cited. No mention of DEG or 2009 or some medico saying "we just don't know what's in them." This article is indeed short, and positive. We should hope many many smokers read it and consider switching!

Good catch, Bu!

 

[Petrodus]

The journalist deserves a few KUDOS from us
in the Comments section

 

[Petrodus]

Wow! Those are the only two studies cited. No mention of DEG or 2009 or some medico saying "we just don't know what's in them." This article is indeed short, and positive. We should hope many many smokers read it and consider switching!

Good catch, Bu!

I suggest the public at large only skims through long articles
but will read most if not all of the short articles.
We live in a sound-byte world.

 

[sbdivemaster]

About 20 minutes ago, someone left a spam comment I have seen on a couple other PV related news stories; the "commenter" (SPAMMER) is claiming that nicotine is "equally as dangerous as the tar and other poisons in tobacco smoke", citing some bizzare study about nicotine patches. This is followed up by a link to a book on Amazon about some "Buddhadharmically Enhanced Alchemical Transmutation Process" for quitting smoking. (A little too much lysergic acid diethylamide back in the hippie days...)

More than likely, the SPAMMER is the author of the junk being passed off as some kind of tobacco cessation program.

I'm researching more on the article cited in the SPAMMER's claims....

EDIT: Strangely, 15 minutes later, the comment is now gone....

 

[Rickajho]

A very "dry" matter of facts little article. Actually refreshing.

I find it interesting to note the stats from the Catania study. Take a bunch of smokers, who have no intention of quitting, throw some e-cigs at them, including some who get zero nicotine, and...

The sustained quit rate is on par or actually better than for people who choose to want to quit and try to do it with conventional BP methods.

 

[Luisa]

As the title would indicate, it's about the facts and none of the standard propaganda. The article is short and cites both the recent CASAA study and the Catania (Italy) study in summary. It's good to see these factual articles popping up lately.

Electronic cigarette facts box - Utica, NY - The Observer-Dispatch, Utica, New York

All members,please comment on this positive article. There are only 2 comments--mine and a crazy antz.

 

[tommy2bad]

About 20 minutes ago, someone left a spam comment I have seen on a couple other PV related news stories; the "commenter" (SPAMMER) is claiming that nicotine is "equally as dangerous as the tar and other poisons in tobacco smoke", citing some bizzare study about nicotine patches. This is followed up by a link to a book on Amazon about some "Buddhadharmically Enhanced Alchemical Transmutation Process" for quitting smoking. (A little too much lysergic acid diethylamide back in the hippie days...)

More than likely, the SPAMMER is the author of the junk being passed off as some kind of tobacco cessation program.

I'm researching more on the article cited in the SPAMMER's claims....

EDIT: Strangely, 15 minutes later, the comment is now gone....

I'v seen the same comment with a link to a study and then the spamie plug for whatever. Even in small local papers comments sections.
Someone has a bot working.

 

[DC2]

All members,please comment on this positive article. There are only 2 comments--mine and a crazy antz.

I was going to post this but I don't do Facebook so I can't...

“Nicotine itself is not a particularly hazardous drug,” says Professor John Britton, who leads the tobacco advisory group for the Royal College of Physicians. ”It’s something on a par with the effects you get from caffeine. If all the smokers in Britain stopped smoking cigarettes and started smoking e-cigarettes we would save 5 million deaths in people who are alive today. It’s a massive potential public health prize.”

 

[Vocalek]

About 20 minutes ago, someone left a spam comment I have seen on a couple other PV related news stories; the "commenter" (SPAMMER) is claiming that nicotine is "equally as dangerous as the tar and other poisons in tobacco smoke", citing some bizzare study about nicotine patches. This is followed up by a link to a book on Amazon about some "Buddhadharmically Enhanced Alchemical Transmutation Process" for quitting smoking. (A little too much lysergic acid diethylamide back in the hippie days...)

More than likely, the SPAMMER is the author of the junk being passed off as some kind of tobacco cessation program.

I'm researching more on the article cited in the SPAMMER's claims....

EDIT: Strangely, 15 minutes later, the comment is now gone....

I saw that comment and followed the link to the full text of the actual study. There is no mention of "patch" in the journal article. It would appear that the reporter (or an editor/producer) came up with the patch idea and ran with it. I left a comment in response to the SPAMMER's comment, and also left this comment just now on the ABC story:

David Tate: The full study makes no mention of nicotine patches, and it shouldn't. What occurs at the cellular level does not indicate what happens at the systemic level. If it did, the FDA would not require clinical trials with human subjects. They could just base their decision on cellular-level research. But as it happens, there has never been a case of cancer attributed to use of the patch or to any other nicotine product. You might be surprised to learn that some of the evidence the FDA used to determine that long-term use of nicotine replacement therapy products would be safe is the decades of research on smokeless tobacco users. Dr. Neal Benowitz stated, "The lack of increase in common cancers in lifelong ST users indicates that nicotine is not a general cancer promoter." You might want to consider removing all references to the patch from this story.

 

[Luisa]

All members,please comment on this positive article. There are only 2 comments--mine and a crazy antz.

This is the article that I was suggesting we all might wish to leave comments. A positive article is hard to find!