E-cigarette ‘safety’ study... not so safe, poisonous

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if you really want to smoke, buy organic tabbacco.
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E-cigarette ‘safety’ study was written by industry funded scientists, Lancet warns
29th August 2015

A study which was cited by public health officials when they advised that vaping was safe, was funded by the e-cigarette industry, it has emerged.

Last week Public Health England (PHE) launched a report encouraging Britain’s eight million smokers to switch to e-cigarettes stating that they are 20 times less harmful than traditional cigarettes.

They called for e-cigarettes to be prescribed on the NHS claiming that vaping was 95 per cent safer than smoking tobacco.

But now it has emerged that their report relied on a 2014 study that was conducted by scientists in the pay of e-cigarette companies.

Writing in the respected medical journal The Lancet, health experts warn that PHE had based a ‘major conclusion’ on an ‘extraordinarily flimsy foundation’. It accused the agency of falling short of its mission to protect public health.’..............

So far no electronic cigarette has been licensed by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) or the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice).

Several studies have found that the flavours used in e-cigarettes may cause respiratory problems and damage the immune system while research published on Tuesday by the University of Southern California suggested they could encourage youngsters to take up smoking.......... more

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/11830029/E-cigarette-safety-study-was-written-by-industry-funded-scientists-Lancet-warns.html

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The tobacco industry is funding anti-vaping "research" just like they funded "tobacco does not cause cancer" "research" before.

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The tobacco industry is funding anti-vaping "research" just like they funded "tobacco does not cause cancer" "research" before.

Exactly. Furthermore, smoke from tobacco is particles. The ecig is a vaporizor. It's a pure gas, there's nothing to clog up the lungs. The nicotine may be bad, but that's it.

It's the same technology used in the Haunted House in Disneyland. How many millions of kids have gone through there? You don't see these "research" articles accusing Disney of hurting kids. The reason, because it's harmless.

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That Telegraph article uses a pic of an ecig from the old days.


If Big Tobacco actually had anything damaging about ecigs then they wouldn't put out crap like this.

while research published on Tuesday by the University of Southern California suggested they could encourage youngsters to take up smoking.