Lies, Damned Lies - and SmokeFree Wisconsin

Some rather thick skulled anti-smoking advocates over at SmokeFree Wisconsin have resorted to blatent if stupid lies in their effort to disparage the electronic cigarette.

In the latest argument against e-cigarettes SmokeFree Wisconsin state that ECigarettes are “the latest ploy by big tobacco to hook kids.”

In fact, the tobacco bill underway in the US, which has the support of Tobacco Free Kids and Philip Morris, is likely to ban electronic cigarettes in America by requiring research that is physically impossible to carry out. (See our interview with Dr Nitzin for elucidation!)

This bill has the support of America’s largest tobacco company. Philip Morris has seen that the bill will aid the company to crush both smaller competititors and safe alternative tobacco products. As a result, it takes some imagination to believe that big tobacco could be behind electronic cigarettes.

SmokeFree Wisconsin might want to read the reply to Lautenburg’s letter, again by Dr Nitzkin, which argues:

simply informing current adult smokers that they could dramatically reduce their risk of tobacco related illness and death by switching to alternative near-zero-risk nicotine delivery products could possibly save 4 million or more of the 8 million current smokers who will
otherwise die of a tobacco-related illness over the next 20 years.

The fact of the matter is that people like SmokeFree Wisconsin are partly responsible for the deaths of smokers who could and would have changed to safer alternative tobacco products like Snus and e-cigarettes but have remained on the cigarettes that are far more lethal to kill them.

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