Wall Street Journal Op- Ed Highlights Dispicable War on E- Cigs – Waiola Vapor Store. By. My assumption was they were a ploy by the tobacco industry to hook more people into smoking under the guise of being a safer product. But as I talked to many e- cigarette users, known as .
- SmithKline signed a marketing partnership with the American Cancer Society to put a society logo on its nonprescription nicotine patch. The pact is the society's first such arrangement covering a pharmaceutical.
- Health: marketers and consumers get the jitters over severe shortage of nicotine patches. Tobacco Dependence and the Nicotine Patch: Clinical Guidelines.
- Some give a nicotine fix without a cigarette. But in an interview with The Wall Street Journal last summer. Linda Holstein quit nearly three years ago using a nicotine patch as well as nicotine gum.
And this campaign may be doing harm to public health. The most common claim about e- cigarettes is that they are a .
The Safety of Transdermal Nicotine as an Aid to Smoking Cessation in Patients with Cardiac Disease. Joseph, M.D., M.P.H., Suzanne M. Norman, Ph.D., Linda H. Ferry, M.D., M.P.H., Allan V. But in an interview with The Wall Street Journal last summer. Stronger ~ for nicotine patches. The FDA met on the 14th of July to discuss whether nicotine patch products should contain a.
The Case Against Nicotine. Wall Street Journal, December 8, 1995.
In September 2. 01. Thomas Frieden , director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said . One recent study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine (January 2.
Another study in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence (February 2. Electronic cigarettes might even be a deterrent to tobacco addiction. Their use by high- school youth tripled between 2. CDC data, and then, according to a University of Michiganstudy, skyrocketed in 2.
That study reports a decline in youth smoking to a historically low level in these years, with smoking among 1. There is no evidence that e- cigarettes entice ex- smokers to return to nicotine use and then back to cigarette smoking. There also is no evidence that e- cigarettes are hindering the quitting process for smokers who. What we do know suggests that e- cigarettes are indeed a gateway: a one- way gateway away from combustible cigarettes and toward a much safer alternative product. Are electronic cigarettes safe? By definition, harm reduction involves an alternative product that is much safer.
As electronic cigarettes contain no tobacco and do not involve combustion, they do not expose users to most of the more than 6. Still, to address legitimate safety concerns, the Food and Drug Administration should set uniform safety standards for e- cigarettes and . These standards should include childproof packaging, battery safety, quality- control standards for nicotine labeling and for the production of e- liquids, and modest regulation of flavorings such as a ban on diacetyl, a flavoring which when inhaled can cause a rare form of obstructive lung disease. The temperature of the coils also needs to be regulated to prevent overheating of the e- liquid, which results in the production of formaldehyde, a recognized carcinogen. These regulations would go far toward maximizing the benefits of e- cigarettes while minimizing the risks.
But instead of working to get them, the products are being demonized by those who should know better. Earlier this month the California Department of Public Health published a pamphlet, . That study found that the addictiveness of e- cigarettes is equivalent to that of nicotine gum, an FDA- approved smoking cessation product.
The same pamphlet asserted that . But the study was carried out under unrealistic conditions in which the e- liquid was severely overheated. Under more realistic conditions the study failed to detect any formaldehyde. Unfortunately, the e- cigarette cancer scare had already been spread through the media.
In the U. K., the percentage of smokers quitting each year steadily declined until 2. This was extremely good news, but more recently the news is not so good. Bloomberg Business reported last summer that e- cigarette sales began to slip in the U.
S., and their use by smokers may even bedeclining in the U. K. The percentage of the public that believes smoking is more hazardous than electronic cigarettes has fallen to 6. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. This is a tremendous lost opportunity. I would hate to see its promise wasted because of misinformation by the very public- health authorities who should be in the vanguard of reducing the harm from cigarettes. Dr. Siegel, a professor at the Boston University School of Public Health, has conducted tobacco research for 2.