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Wagner, Conaway on Bill Package to Restrict Sale, Use of E-Cigarettes (A-4227/A-4228) - Video | NJ.com: Community Videos - NJ.com
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To quote Dr. Micheal Siegel of the Boston University School of Public Health: "If you are going to interfere with the autonomy of business owners, you ought to have a pretty strong reason to do so. In my mind, that means actual evidence that the exposure is a significant hazard. Mere speculation that there might be a hazard -- without any specific evidence to support that speculation -- is not sufficient, I believe, to justify these types of bans."
Two independent surveys have shown that 79-80% of regular users of electronic "cigarettes" have completely stopped smoking tobacco cigarettes. You know, tobacco cigarettes--the kind you set fire to? The kind that produce real smoke containing tar, carbon monoxide, and particulates?
Many were not even trying to quit smoking, but found themselves (to their surprise) no longer interested in using tobacco cigarettes. Those of us who did have the intention to quit had already tried all of the FDA-approved nicotine replacement products that have a 10% success rate.
We now have a product that is 800% more effective than the recommended treatments. We have an opportunity to take advantage of the existing bans on real smoke to convert a sizeable number of real smokers to this 99% safer product.
Instead of taking advantage of this unprecedented public health opportunity, Ms. Wagner and Dr. Conaway appear to be aiming for the dubious honor of being the New Jersey legislators most likely to prevent smoking cessation.