{"id":4540,"date":"2013-07-17T15:19:11","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T19:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/?p=4540"},"modified":"2013-07-17T15:19:11","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T19:19:11","slug":"fours-years-of-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/fours-years-of-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"Fours years of nothing&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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. \u00a0While 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.<\/p>\n<p>I started vaping over four years ago, and at that time there really wasn&#8217;t much evidence at all. \u00a0The FDA tried to ban them, first with no evidence, then with a single ridiculous study that found trace amounts of diethylene glycol on <em>one<\/em> 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<em> four years ago<\/em>. If there really is an inherent risk to ecigs, wouldn&#8217;t there be a little more evidence by now?<\/p>\n<p>The FDA, pharmaceutical companies and radical anti-smoking groups all have a vested interest in seeing ecigs removed from the market. It&#8217;s hard to imagine that these entities haven&#8217;t done any new research into a very big potential threat to the nicotine replacement profit center. \u00a0So 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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. \u00a0While 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4540"}],"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=4540"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4543,"href":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4540\/revisions\/4543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}