{"id":3801,"date":"2012-09-27T14:54:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T18:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/?p=3801"},"modified":"2012-09-27T14:54:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T18:54:00","slug":"the-reason-behind-the-antis-rejection-of-electronic-cigarettes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/the-reason-behind-the-antis-rejection-of-electronic-cigarettes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Reason Behind the Antis Rejection of Electronic Cigarettes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Electronic cigarette users have found it frustrating that anti-smoking groups have tried to squash a healthier alternative to smoking instead of embracing it like they should. \u00a0Like many questions these days, following the money may lead to the answer. \u00a0Dr. Michael Siegel states in a <a href=\"http:\/\/tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.co.uk\/2012\/09\/anti-smoking-groups-that-opposed.html\" target=\"_blank\">recent article<\/a> that in 2011 and the first two quarters of 2012, Pfizer alone contributed nearly $2.8 million to organizations such as the American Cancer Society, the American Lung Association \u00a0and the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids. \u00a0In short, the maker of Chantix has contributed $2.8 million more than the electronic cigarette industry has.<\/p>\n<p>The anti-smoking groups&#8217; rejection of electronic cigarettes has been difficult to understand. \u00a0Surely they are not ignorant of science to the point that they cannot separate nicotine from the actual harmful chemicals in cigarettes, right? \u00a0Maybe a gentle suggestion and a few hundred thousand dollars helps. \u00a0Of course, it would be difficult to find factual evidence that Pfizer has bought support for their version of smoking cessation that involves a drug linked to suicide and other health problems at the expense of ecigs. \u00a0These groups certainly do not want this funding to be public knowledge, though, and did not report their conflict of interest when making recommendations agains electronic cigarettes to the FDA. \u00a0 The conclusion is hard to ignore. \u00a0Organizations like these don&#8217;t exist without funding, and corporations like Pfizer don&#8217;t spend $2.8 million for nothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electronic cigarette users have found it frustrating that anti-smoking groups have tried to squash a healthier alternative to smoking instead of embracing it like they should. \u00a0Like many questions these days, following the money may lead to the answer. \u00a0Dr. Michael Siegel states in a recent article that in 2011 and the first two quarters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3801"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3801"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3803,"href":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3801\/revisions\/3803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}