Ashtray Blog: An Electronic Cigarette Blog

The government is currently trying to decide what to do about the electronic cigarette.

And they are inviting the public’s views.

By letting them know, you can decide the fate of the electronic cigarette.

What could happen:

1. The government could ban the e-cigarette.

2. The government may only allow it to be sold as a quit smoking aid.

We invite regulation that will help safe electronic cigarettes, but ask that smokers be allowed to enjoy an alternative to smoking that contains no tar or tobacco, and which (for some models) has been tested free of toxins.

Professor Michael Siegel recently said (in a comment on the FDA in America):

To deprive them [the public] of the choice to continue vaping and instead, force them to return to smoking, would severely harm their health. I simply do not see the public health protection resulting from a policy of forcing thousands of vapers to return to cigarette smoking.

Please click here to comment – and stop them from depriving smokers of the electronic cigarette!

http://www.mhra.gov.uk/Publications/Consultations/Medicinesconsultations/MLXs/CON065617

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Professor Carl Phillips has just made an excellent reply to our recent listing of grants to pharmaceutical companies.

In his post New Catalog of Financial Conflict of Interest r.e. Anti-E-Cig Activism he points out that the actual funding of the companies is not the problem.

The pharmaceutical companies provides lots of funding to lots of different organisations, many of which produce good work.

The real problem lies with the non-disclosure of this funding by health groups.

With that in mind, we’d like to disclose that this blog is funded by E Cigarette Direct. And we are inherently biased towards electronic cigarettes.

Just in case you hadn’t guessed!

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This is a post we have been meaning to do for some time!

We have been tracking down funding for the electronic cigarette campaign.

Some funding has been easy to find. However, some organisations are more secretive. ASH International’s funding from suicide drug maker Pfizer was difficult to track down, as they have no reference to it on their website – and the credit for finding that goes to E Cigarette National.

(ASH International should not be confused with ASH UK. We have been through ASH UK’s balance sheets and have yet to find any funding from large pharmaceutical companies, which perhaps explains their more balanced approach to the electronic cigarette.)

Bill Godshall first mentioned GlaxoSmithKline’s secretive agreement with the American Cancer Society, while Professor Michael Siegel’s blog pointed us towards more funding for ASH.

This funding is of concern because these companies produce the nicotine cessation aids which directly compete with the electronic cigarette.

To see all the details of the funding check out this page: Big Pharm Funding of Anti-Electronic Cigarette Campaign.

We are sure there is more out there – feel free to point it out to us. (All information/help we use wil be attributed.)

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