{"id":5141,"date":"2014-09-11T07:34:28","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T11:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/?p=5141"},"modified":"2014-09-09T16:35:45","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T20:35:45","slug":"e-cigarettes-could-save-tens-of-thousands-of-lives-each-year-tobacco-studies-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/e-cigarettes-could-save-tens-of-thousands-of-lives-each-year-tobacco-studies-director\/","title":{"rendered":"E-cigarettes Could Save Tens of Thousands of Lives Each Year &#8211; Tobacco Studies Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert West, PhD, the director of tobacco\u00a0studies at University College London is yet another leading health figure to endorse electronic cigarettes. \u00a0In a WebMD article I mentioned a few days ago, West took issue with the World Health Organization (WHO) after it published a negative report on ecigs that drew a number of erroneous conclusions.<\/p>\n<p>In West&#8217;s comments he notes that\u00a0persuading a million smokers to switch to an e-cigarette could lead to 6,000 lives being saved each year &#8220;even in the event that e-cigarette use carries a significant risk of fatal diseases.\u201d \u00a0Kudos to Mr. West for calling it like it is.<\/p>\n<p>We all are aware that we would be better off not inhaling anything into our lungs, but if we can significantly decrease the risk of doing so, why would a &#8220;health organization&#8221; object? \u00a0Or as West puts it, &#8220;&#8221;given that smokers smoke primarily for the nicotine but die primarily from the tar, one might imagine that e-cigarettes would be welcomed as a means to prevent much of the death and suffering caused by cigarettes.&#8221; \u00a0Well said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert West, PhD, the director of tobacco\u00a0studies at University College London is yet another leading health figure to endorse electronic cigarettes. \u00a0In a WebMD article I mentioned a few days ago, West took issue with the World Health Organization (WHO) after it published a negative report on ecigs that drew a number of erroneous conclusions. [&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\/5141"}],"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=5141"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5145,"href":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5141\/revisions\/5145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}