Posted on 01/28/2015 8:41:44 AM PST by Oldpuppymax
According to Dr. Gilbert Ross, Medical and Executive Director, American Council on Science and Health…
Smoking is America’s most important, and preventable, public health problem: It is estimated that almost a half-million of us will succumb prematurely to smoking’s deadly effects each year, with twenty-times that number sickened. Among our 43 million smokers, over half try to quit each year, yet less than one in twenty succeed. The FDA approved products—patches, gums, and drugs—help “boost” that to about one in ten, an abysmal “success” rate of 10 percent. Yet, the official line, from the FDA and the CDC on down, is “stick with the FDA-approved methods; don’t even try anything else!”
Chief among that “anything else” are e-cigarettes, loved by users—because they do help you quit—but almost unanimously hated by officialdom. Dr. Ross has been in the forefront of those criticizing the coordinated and baseless attacks on e-cigarettes for years, and fortunately he is not alone. Other good guys include Bill Godshall, Brad Rodu, Michael Siegel, Carl Phillips, and Clive Bates. However, there are powerful forces against e-cigarettes, including the proverbial strange bedfellows.
Clearly, Big Tobacco has been against e-cigarettes from the get-go, alarmed by decreasing cigarette sales, compared to skyrocketing e-cigarette sales. Some cigarette manufacturers have even ventured into the e-cig business themselves. Big Pharma also lines up against e-cigs, with its gums, patches, and lozenges; not to mention nicotine receptor partial agonist drugs such as Chantix. Ross notes the miserable track record of these pharmaceutical products, and is too polite to ask if people would take any other pharmaceutical with such a poor success rate. Chantix is also known for bizarre side effects, and carries the dreaded black box warning against serious neuropsychiatric events.
As to the strange bedfellows, e-cig opponents include many public health departments...
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That is a long debunked study. In order to get those byproducts from Vegetable Glycerin, Propylene Glycol, Nicotine (in a PG or VG base), and (FDA approved food) flavorings (in a PG or VG base), the liquid must be combusted, which does not occur in vaporizers.
“I think you nailed it; just like pot use and tolerance has “evolved”.”
e-cig concern is also cannabis-related. You can get pot-extract in e-cig juice that is very concentrated, with no way to tell if a person is vaping nicotine or THC, apart from giggling.
Wow, the things I’m unaware of living my sheltered life!
Yeah, I know. People take “wax” or “shatter” cannabis extracts (extracted with liquid butane at home under dubious safety conditions) and dissolve that in propylene glycol then load their vape devices. “Wax” extract looks like earwax and people smoke it, go figure.
I think you can buy wax and shatter and shard extracts legally in Colorado, but there have been a number of home butane explosions and fires to suggest a bootleg market.
Needless to say, one draw on such a loaded vaporizer is, from what I’ve heard, enough to launch you into orbit.
And in the minds of fanatics, that's reason enough to ban the former.
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