we all do know the harm tobacco smoking and it's 4000+ ingredients/chemicals cause.
Fixed that for you.
Nearly all increased health risks come from smoking, not tobacco. WHO doesn't support tobacco harm reduction - just 100% abstinence and the elimination of all tobacco, tobacco products and recreational nicotine products. WHO is 100% against electronic cigarettes. The WHO site for this day states "Tobacco kills nearly six million people each year, of which more than 600 000 are non-smokers dying from breathing second-hand smoke." That is an outright lie. Smoking causes nearly all "tobacco-related" diseases (diseases which many people still get without ever using or being exposed to tobacco) and second-hand smoke deaths are extremely exaggerated - if they even exist in real life (and not just in estimated numbers the ANTZ use.)
the enemy of my enemy is my friend. or something like that.
i just wonder if its a good idea or not, and would like to hear other's opinion on the subject.
If the enemy of our enemy is our friend, then our closest ally would be the tobacco industry and with friends like that....
So, my opinion would be no - it's not good to ally ourselves with or support WHO.
Hmmm . . . I'm not sure I follow your reasoning, EddardinWinter. Aside from being in citrus fruits (oranges, lemons, limes, grapefruit, etc.), citric acid is made by fermenting sugar using various bacteria. By your reasoning, then, citric acid (a product) = a lime (the whole fruit), citric acid = sugar and citric acid = certain bacteria.
That's a pretty disingenuous argument, don't you think? Nicotine in e-cigarettes is literally extracted from tobacco and it is (not the only but) the primary ingredient in tobacco most smokers want/need. It's more comparable to vanilla extract than citric acid.
It's pretty impossible to argue that e-cigarette nicotine is not a tobacco derivative. There is nothing wrong with being considered a "tobacco product," as there is nothing wrong with being a tobacco user. Most modern, smoke-free tobacco is just as safe as e-cigarettes. I personally believe the only way e-cigarettes will ever be socially accepted is if the public knows the truth about smoke-free tobacco. Distancing ourselves from it - rather than supporting it - is just as silly as the caffeinated 5 Hour Energy drink company arguing its not a "coffee product." That's true, but coffee isn't dangerous and shouldn't be regulated like it is, so what is the point in arguing? If the public continues to believe that ST is the same as cigarettes, they will continue to believe all tobacco is bad and therefore, since e-cigarettes keep people using the primary "wanted" ingredient in tobacco, they are just as bad, too.
