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American Lung Cancer Lobby to Return Ex-Smokers to Cigarettes
It is better for smokers to use cigarettes than devices that carry just one percent of the risk of cigarettes (estimate of risk by Dr Joel Nitzkin).
That’s the message from the American Lung Association, which, according to a recent blog post by Wisconsin’s Vapers, is lobbying to have the device banned.
Crucially, the American Lung Cancer acknowledges the electronic cigarette contains fewer chemicals than the electronic cigarette. (According to some testing, the vapour actually contains no toxins at all.)
Why oppose it? They ramble on about nicotine. However, according to both the UK MHRA and the Royal college of Physicians, it is not nicotine that causes smoking diseases. In any case, there is a less nicotine in an electronic cigarette than in a cigarette.
They also complain that smokers are using electronic cigarettes to switch instead of quitting. But switching to a safer form of nicotine use actually makes a lot of sense – and should surely be a smoker’s right!
What the society does not acknowledge is that it has a conflict of interest: it receives funds from the companies that manufactures competing nicotine cessation aids. (See anti-electronic cigarette funding.)
I believe this, and a moralistic opposition to something that resembles smoking a little too closely, is the real reason they oppose the electronic cigarette.
Tags: cancer america, hypocrisy
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“It is better for smokers to use cigarettes than devices that carry just one percent of the risk of cigarettes (estimate of risk by Dr Joel Nitzkin).
That’s the message from the American Lung Association, which, according to a recent blog post by Wisconsin’s Vapers, is lobbying to have the device banned.”
This sort of logic simply boggles the mind doesn’t it?
“I believe this, and a moralistic opposition to something that resembles smoking a little too closely, is the real reason they oppose the electronic cigarette.”
I concur. You also can’t rule out the threat the electronic cigarette industry has become to the pocketbooks of Big Tobacco executives. Thank you for your informative post.
Big tobacco have got the most to lose from the e-cigarette. But everything I have seen points to pharmaceutical companies acting against the e-cigarette. Perhaps the tobacco companies are just more subtle!
Sorry to burst your bubble, CS Bell, but Big Tobacco has next to nothing to do with the current E-Cig. They stand to lose a lot from its success.
Pharma is doing this – the ALA, ACA, and AHA are funded heavily from them, and the lobbyist at the IL hearing purposefully dropped those names.
Its a damn shame that these groups, who operate on the appearance of protecting the public’s health, can so grossly show themselves to be operating on their own, purchased, self-interest instead of the public’s.
Government stands to lose out big, as well, when smokers make a switch away from their heavily sin-taxed products. How will the states balance their budgets now, if not on the backs of an addicted group of people?