I recently read yet another article that quoted a healthcare professional as stating that electronic cigarettes need to be studied before they can be deemed safe. While I still would like to see the outcome of long term studies, I personally am quite happy with what is known, that they are many, many times safer than cigarettes.
I started vaping over four years ago, and at that time there really wasn’t much evidence at all. The FDA tried to ban them, first with no evidence, then with a single ridiculous study that found trace amounts of diethylene glycol on one cartridge. To this day, opponents of the ecig tout that FDA study as there sole reason that electronic cigarettes should be outlawed. That was over four years ago. If there really is an inherent risk to ecigs, wouldn’t there be a little more evidence by now?
The FDA, pharmaceutical companies and radical anti-smoking groups all have a vested interest in seeing ecigs removed from the market. It’s hard to imagine that these entities haven’t done any new research into a very big potential threat to the nicotine replacement profit center. So it can be reasonable expected that a lot of money has been spent to fund studies that would find them harmful. Yet still nothing to report. I wonder why…
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