Save the date: Oct 3rd webcast panel discussion on e-cigs

[Oliver]

TRDRP:E-Cigarettes: The Vapor This Time?

Heads up: The tobacco-related Disease Program at the University of California are to hold a webcast panel discussion on the 3rd of October. Details are as follows:

Expert researchers will present the state of the science on electronic cigarettes. A question and answer discussion period will follow presentations.​

Jean-Francois Etter, PhD, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Monique Williams, ABD, University of California Riverside
Chris Bullen, MBChB, PhD, Auckland University, New Zealand
Prudence Talbot, PhD, University of California Riverside
Discussant: Stanton Glantz, PhD, University of California San Francisco

Please see the above link for registration details etc.
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[retired1]

TRDRP:E-Cigarettes: The Vapor This Time?

Heads up: The tobacco-related Disease Program at the University of California are to hold a webcast panel discussion on the 3rd of October. Details are as follows:

Expert researchers will present the state of the science on electronic cigarettes. A question and answer discussion period will follow presentations.​

Jean-Francois Etter, PhD, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Monique Williams, ABD, University of California Riverside
Chris Bullen, MBChB, PhD, Auckland University, New Zealand
Prudence Talbot, PhD, University of California Riverside
Discussant: Stanton Glantz, PhD, University of California San Francisco

Please see the above link for registration details etc.
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This should be interesting. Dr's Etter and Bullen are on the record as being for e-cigarette use. Of course, we all know the type of misrepresentation that Glantz, Talbot and Williams are guilty of.

A little more research indicates this isn't going to be pretty. The "Advisors" that TRDRP lists that have weighed in on e-cigarette use are on record for all out bans. So we have an agency that's against e-cigarette use stacking the panel with known zealots who will do their best to muddy the waters with misinformation and lies.

 

[Bill Godshall]

Since Etter and Bullen are knowledgeable about e-cigarette use by smokers (but neither are American), that's probably why they were invited and what they're presentations will focus on.

But since Talbot, Williams and Glantz have all greatly exaggerated the risks of e-cigs and e-cig vapor, they'll likely claim that even if e-cigs are effective for smoking cessation, their use should be banned wherever smoking is banned.

I suspect that Glantz will invite Sen. Corbett and other CA legislators to attend this event in order to lobby them to enact Corbett's bill to ban e-cig use in all workplaces. That's the real goal of this event.

 

[DC2]

Since it is a "panel discussion" is there any chance that Etter and/or Bullen would refute the garbage that I assume Talbot and Glantz will present?

 

[retired1]

Since it is a "panel discussion" is there any chance that Etter and/or Bullen would refute the garbage that I assume Talbot and Glantz will present?

One can only hope, But with half the panel being anti-tobacco zealots and Gantz being a discussant, I'm seeing this as an attempt to discredit research that shows the harm reduction in electronic cigarettes.

 

[2coils]

I would have liked expert Dr. Siegel or Dr. Rodu to rebut these jerks. This panel is suspect at best!