{"id":4782,"date":"2014-01-21T18:42:50","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T22:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/?p=4782"},"modified":"2014-01-21T12:43:14","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T16:43:14","slug":"smokers-should-be-encouraged-to-use-electronic-cigarettes-huffington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/smokers-should-be-encouraged-to-use-electronic-cigarettes-huffington-post\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Smokers Should Be Encouraged&#8221; to use electronic cigarettes &#8211; Huffington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I continue to think that there are ample good reasons to treat e-cigs as a class of products that are much less dangerous to health than are cigarettes and that smokers should be encouraged to use them instead of cigarettes as soon as possible.&#8221; \u00a0That&#8217;s not me talking, it&#8217;s\u00a0Lynn T. Kozlowski, Ph.D., the dean of the School of Public Health and Health Professions at the University at Buffalo, SUNY in a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/lynn-t-kozlowski-phd\/e-cigarettes_b_4550443.html\" target=\"_blank\">Huffington Post<\/a> article.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/lynn-t-kozlowski-phd\/e-cigarettes_b_4550443.html\" target=\"_blank\">E-cigs vs. Cigs: Cut Through, Cut In, Cut Down, Cut Out<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>Kozlowski acknowledges the contradictory viewpoints that surround the use of electronic cigarettes, even from within the publication he is writing for, but is outspoken in his support of ecigs as a smoking cessation tool. \u00a0Much of the article focuses on the idea of quitting cigarette entirely, not just cutting back, and then delves further into why the FDA should be very careful about deciding to regulate electronic cigarettes.<\/p>\n<p>In all, it&#8217;s a positive article that \u00a0treats the electronic cigarette as the great alternative to smoking that it is rather than the dangerous gimmick that so much of the media portrays it as. \u00a0It&#8217;s well worth the read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I continue to think that there are ample good reasons to treat e-cigs as a class of products that are much less dangerous to health than are cigarettes and that smokers should be encouraged to use them instead of cigarettes as soon as possible.&#8221; \u00a0That&#8217;s not me talking, it&#8217;s\u00a0Lynn T. Kozlowski, Ph.D., the dean of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4782"}],"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=4782"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4788,"href":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4782\/revisions\/4788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}