Penn State-Virginia Commonwealth study will include ecigs

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I thought you might be interested in this story: Penn State-Virginia Commonwealth collaboration will study matters including electronic cigarettes, Penn State-Virginia Commonwealth collaboration will study matters including electronic cigarettes | PennLive.com

 

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Funding comes from National Institutes of Health. Notice the date of the award.

When Penn State-Hershey learned it had qualified for the award in 2011, it was expected to bring in $27.3 million in federal funding over five years.
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One ongoing collaboration involves electronic cigarettes. The researchers now will conduct a clinical trial involving 520 people to evaluate the impact of electronic cigarettes on smokers who have decided not to quit smoking. Half of the trial subjects will be recruited by each institution, and the results are expected to be used by federal officials in creating regulations for electronic cigarettes.

Both universities are among those where FDA established tobacco Centers of Regulatory Science (TCORS) (multi-million dollar funding in 2013):
---Pennsylvania State University: Pennsylvania State University tobacco Center of Regulatory Science (PSU TCORS) )(Joshua Muscat, Jonathan Foulds)
---Virginia Commonwealth University: Center for the Study of tobacco Products (Thomas Eissenberg, Robert Balster)

Interesting....