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The Great FDA Scam On E Cigarettes
It is a growing trend online and at local malls to see the new e cigarette for sale and people, both smokers and non smokers flocking to them as more and more information is released on the effect they are having on the population.
Most of the smokers that have tried them swear by them with claims of leaving tobacco cigarettes behind and claims of better health and appearance to boot. There was even a study from South Africa that claims that 45% of the people who switched to the e cigarette have now quit using tobacco and are feeling better. All of the scientist and doctors in that study were amazed at the results and highly approve of them as a cessation product and a plain out healthier choice.
This is not the consensus here in the United States when it comes to the government and special interest though. There is still an ongoing battle in a federal court over the popular product with fierce support from most users, family members and even doctors and scientist that are shouting praises for the e cigarette and screaming corruption at the government and special interest for their position on the product.
Several of the board members on the FDA advisory board that are suggesting a ban have direct financial ties to large pharmaceutical companies which creates an open conflict of interest. These companies make profits from smoking cessation products that average a 2% quit rate, so it is in their interest to keep a product off of the market that helps 45% quit smoking according to unbiased studies with no financial ties to special interest.
What is really had to swallow is that these same special interest groups that are funded by these companies also wrote the recent anti-smoking legislation that actually keeps tobacco legal and kills over 400,000 Americans each year. This is a travesty that the ones who claim they want to help people quit tobacco are the same ones that are protecting it and profiting on the funding companies ability to market products that do not work, while trying to ban the products that do work.
Even with all of the corruption from the special interest, the FDA recently put out lab results that were not factual and were misleading to scare the people away from the e cigarette. They did not use a control tthat was equal to the product they were testing and completely ignored the dangers of tobacco that most use the e cigarette to avoid. The current problem is that the coming legal decision may not be based on fact or truth, but rather, based on laws that were written in the past to protect the special interest of a few companies.
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E Cigarette Users Furious Over Anti-Smoking NAZI’s Comments Online
Used by permission from the commenter: The following was a comment on a blog post that was slamming e cigarettes, smokers in general and just being plain out assholes to smokers when they bear the burden in life and money for their actions. Maybe it is time for the smokers and ones trying to quit to stand up and tell them “ENOUGH”~ Admin
“E-Cigarettes Will Revolutionize The Face Of Tobacco Smoking And Could Pose A Threat To the Smoking Cessation Market”
This is why there is a lot of flak an media spin to get the anti-smoking Nazi’s feathers ruffled. And yes, the anti smoking system is modeled after Hitler in the NAZI regime. Look it up.
Now, back to the quoted title, it was a title of a topic for a major pharma company board meeting early this year. They have donated 99 MILLION dollars to fund the anti smoking fundies and their main agenda is, and I quote “(1) the Foundation encouraged its grantees to be activists; (2) advocacy was emphasized to bring about policy change”, and in their own chilling words, they “provided financial support and, in particular, funds to help lobbying efforts which the Foundation could not support directly.”
So, all of you hitler followers need to educate yourself and see what road you are heading down with your self rightous attitudes. Our government protects big tobacco and the pharma companies to protect their profits and taxes, they sin tax the smokers, but keep it legal.
Pharma has lobbyist full time in washington to protect their interest, which is a 2.3 billion dollar a year cessation market for trash products that work on less than 2% of people who try to quit.I had spent thousands trying to quit over a 20 year out of 25 year smoking habit, so any moron that says I was not serious is insane.
Do you think that 2.3 billion a year is commitement to quit by more than a handfull of smokers?You people do not think past the end of your noses. I quit after 25 years with the e cigarette, my mom quit after 45 years with them, and there have been a total of six now that I have given them to that have quit using them.
Next, there are health studies on the nicotine, what is absorbed and the likes. First off, there is 1/10th to 1/20 the amount of nicotine in an e cigarette compared to a regular tobacco cigarette. Over 98% of the nicotine is absorbed in the throat, the rest in the lung, and only a trace amount is exhaled, so nobody else is getting any, so that boat dosen’t float.
There is a reason that the pharma companies are scared, because they know it works. Don’t be stupid and try to help stop the one chance that smokers have to get large numbers to quit forever.
E Cigarette Or Tobacco Cigarette – Which Is Better?
Tobacco cigarettes were accepted by people and society just a few decades ago, but after medical research was conducted it was found that they do more harm than good. Similarly, the electronic cigarette gained much fame and controversy from the day they were made available to the market. But the question remains: which one is better, the electronic cigarette or the tobacco cigarette?
Traditional cigarettes consist of two parts: paper and a tobacco concoction. The dried tobacco leaves are rolled up with thin paper, and then it can be smoked by someone. The electronic cigarette consists of three parts: the battery, the atomizer, and the mouthpiece. The battery makes the e cigarette functional, the atomizer is the small device used to heat up the liquid solution, and the mouthpiece contains the cartridge that holds the liquid solution.
Tobacco in a cigarette by itself probably would not be so bad, but the fact that other ingredients are combined with it is bad. A single cigarette can contain over 4,000 chemicals, 43 of which are cancer-causing agents, and include tar, carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, and a huge list of other chemicals that you would otherwise not ingest. On the other hand, the liquid solution used in an e cigarette contains about 10 to 20 ingredients. The majority of the solution is comprised of propylene glycol, and the other ingredients can include vinegar, natural and artificial flavoring, and a couple of other ingredients. The only ingredient you should be weary about is nicotine, which can be lethal if ingested in huge doses, but that could also be found in tobacco cigarettes.
Due to the harmful side effects of secondhand smoke, smoking a tobacco cigarette in all public buildings has been banned. Smoking outside of a building? Probably not allowed either, depending on state laws. The e cigarette, as of this time, can be smoked anywhere because there is no dangerous secondhand smoke emitted from the device when you exhale. The smoke-like mist you see coming from the end of the e cigarette is just an odorless vapor that doesn’t contain nicotine or any of the chemicals the “smoker” just inhaled.
The clear winner here is the e cigarette, and as beneficial as these devices are, it seems that certain interest groups and even the own FDA have been cautioning against them a little too much. Because it is contains nicotine, it is being classified as a drug delivery system and additional research will have to be conducted to see the dangers posed by these e cigarettes, if any. Perhaps it is not in the interest of individuals that the FDA is concerned with but the interest of those who help to line their pockets. Just speculation.
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E-Cigarettes Will Revolutionize The Face Of Tobacco Smoking And Could Pose A Threat To the Smoking Cessation Market
| The above title may seem to be fictional, but is an actual section title within a recent pharmaceutical industry report by Tiffany Ellis |
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GAINESVILLE, FL — (OfficialWire) — 06/02/09 — Whenever the term “e cigarette” comes into play in a conversation, the word “controversy” comes to mind due to the negative press put out about this new invention, but what are the underlying facts of this controversy? The American Cancer Society; the American Heart Association, and the American Lung Association have all had experts state that there is no proof that the e-cigarette is safe and that they may attract the youth of this nation and entice them to start smoking.
The facts are that they are not the “public health officials” they are reported to be. They are in fact private foundations that are not governmental in nature and the people or “experts” as they are referred to have in the past and are present operated by funding from large pharmaceutical companies. One pharmaceutical company in particular has a money trail of 99 million from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to these three special interest groups. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has an estimated 700 million worth of stock in Johnson and Johnson, whose products are probably found in your medicine cabinet at this very moment. The two main points of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundations were that “(1) the Foundation encouraged its grantees to be activists; (2) advocacy was emphasized to bring about policy change”, and in their own chilling words, they “provided financial support and, in particular, funds to help lobbying efforts which the Foundation could not support directly.” Then there is the title of this release where the e cigarette industry is looked upon as a threat to their revenues. The e cigarette industry has sponsored three known studies on the products to prove that they are safe and the studies are public. The studies were completed by two different government approved clinical studies labs, one in the United Kingdom, LPD Lab Services, which is governmentally certified by the United Kindom Accreditation Service. In the UKAS’s own words, “accreditation by UKAS demonstrates the competence, impartiality and performance capability of these evaluators.” In light of this, the accusations that the study was biased due to it being funded by the brand that was being tested can be considered to be without merit and much the same can be said for the tests performed in New Zealand, since they were also performed by a internationally recognized company called Health New Zealand. Health New Zealand was founded by Dr Murray Laugesen in 1995 after serving a full 18 years as an established medical officer in the Ministry of Health and in the Public Health Commission. He is one of the most recognized anti-smoking health practitioners in New Zealand and Australia and has been the recipient of numerous awards, including a medal from the World Health Organization in 1998 “for achievements deemed worthy of international recognition in promoting the concept of tobacco-free societies.” Dr. Laugesen claims that after having performed tests on e-cigarettes, they are 100 to 1,000 times safer than commercial tobacco cigarettes. Considering that the pharmaceutical smoking cessation market is a 3 billion dollar cash cow annually, is it any wonder why millions of people are questioning special interest groups and the FDA about their stance on e-cigarettes? Visit Electronic Cigarettes USA’s online e cigarette store at http://electroniccigarettesusa.info/ |
E Cigarette Study Claims They Are 1000 Times Safer Than Tobacco Cigarettes
Politicians and health officials in the United States want to ban products known as e-cigarettes, without submitting any proof that they are unsafe. While e-cigarette manufacturers have submitted their products for testing to laboratories who have released studies stating that the products are safe and healthier than tobacco cigarettes, health organizations blast the studies as biased due to who funded the studies.
E-cigarette studies released in the United Kingdom and in New Zealand state that e-cigarettes are safer than tobacco cigarettes by 100 times. Tobacco cigarettes emit over 4,800 chemicals (including arsenic, formaldehyde, and many others), according to the CDC, and e-cigarette mist contains none of that.
Further, studies have concluded that bystanders do not have to worry about being exposed to secondhand mist, due to the fact that the mist dissipates within seconds after it is exhaled. It does not hang in the air like smoke does because of its low temperature and weight. Heat rises and unless the mist is exhaled upwards, it does not stay at the person’s breathing level; it sinks. In fact, e-cigarettes only emit 10% of the heat tobacco cigarettes do and when they are not being puffed on, they do not heat up at all.
Aside from e-cigarettes being better for the body than tobacco cigarettes, they also pose no fire hazard, since they do not combust tobacco and are not on fire. An e-smoker can put their e-cigarette down anywhere they want to without concern that it will burn the surface or themselves. Store it in a shirt or jacket pocket like a pen and take it out as wanted. It’s ready to use, but not difficult to put down, unlike tobacco cigarettes that require ash trays and other proper places to dispose of them. Why smoke an entire tobacco cigarette when you can take a puff off an e-cigarette and put it away? Nicotine is absorbed into the body faster through e-cigarette mist, so the craving for the nicotine is killed much faster. No commitment to smoking an entire cigarette just because you don’t want to waste it and odds are, you’ll end up smoking LESS!
While many e-cigarette manufacturers have put their products to the test, the FDA and other organizations still have not performed their own studies on the products, despite the products’ availability and having had ample time to research the products on their own. Smokers are waiting for them to step up to the plate.
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