Utah Legislature: Lawmakers take aim at tobacco products

[rothenbj]

Found this article

Utah Legislature: Lawmakers take aim at tobacco products | Deseret News

"E-cigarettes also might do as much harm as good. A new study announced Friday by the Korea Food and Drug Administration shows that although they have less nicotine than ordinary cigarettes, the vaporized solution from them can cause a host of immediate physical reactions, including lung cancer, if used for two years or longer."

I've been trying to find where they got this information, but no luck so far. Perhaps someone else has found it.

Sorry, this is an old article from February 1st of this year. Just went back to it. I was just going to delete it, but where would they have even gotten the information about Korea. As far as I can see, it was purely fabricated.

 

[Bill Godshall]

The UT legislature subsequently chose to not ban e-cigarette sales to adults, and enacted legislation to ban the sale of e-cigarettes to youth. Not sure what happened to the smokeless legislation, but I recall that Altria threatened to sue UT if it enacted it.

 

[bassthumper]

LMAO cancer eh?

and where's the carcinogens?

 

[Vocalek]

Sent this email to the reporter:

Can you please point me to the source of this statement: "A new study announced Friday by the Korea Food and Drug Administration shows that although they have less nicotine than ordinary cigarettes, the vaporized solution from them can cause a host of immediate physical reactions, including lung cancer, if used for two years or longer." This is from your story http://www.deseretnews.com/article/...e-Lawmakers-take-aim-at-tobacco-products.html

Lung cancer from cigarette smoking is triggered by inhaling the tar, carbon monoxide, particulates, and thousands of chemicals created by the process of combustion. Nothing is burned in an e-cigarette, therefore all these elements are not present in vapor. Furthermore, nicotine is not a known carcinogen. Therefore I am finding it difficult to understand how inhaling vapor from an e-cigarette can cause lung cancer after two year's use. Can you help clear up my confusion?

I have a personal stake in this, because I smoked for 45 years. I had developed wheezing that kept me awake at night. I couldn't laugh out loud without going into a coughing jag. I switched to e-cigarettes 19 months ago and the wheezing and coughing are gone! So is the Korean FDA telling me that to avoid lung cancer, I need to go back to inhaling tobacco smoke?

I want to look at how they conducted their research. Thanks for your assistance in this matter.

If the reporter just made up the statement about the Korean FDA, I expect I will receive no reply at all. I'll be sure to let you know what I hear back from him.

 

[Territoo]

If the reporter just made up the statement about the Korean FDA, I expect I will receive no reply at all. I'll be sure to let you know what I hear back from him.

If he does reply and he does have a source, it just means that the Korean FDA is as corrupt as its US counterpart.

 

[dkhawkee]

For whatever it is worth......Only thing I found was a certification from the KFDA to an e-cig business based in Korea, which would go against what the article is trying to say.

Certificate - Shenzhen Boge Technology Co.,Ltd.

 

[Bill Godshall]

I doubt the reporter will respond to Elaine's inquiry, as that article was written ten months ago.