Study finds E-cigarettes don’t help smokers quit

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100. Oddly the same tactics used by the gun control advocates in their attempt to ban firearms ...

are being used in the attack on e-cigs.

Highly questionable "studies" are being published to show that e-cigs have no value in helping people who wish to stop actually succeed.

E-cig control advocates are crying, "What about the children."

They also try to create fear that second hand e-cig vapor might contain nicotine and lead to the development of cancer in those exposed to it. This tactic has a chance of success as many people falsely believe it's the nicotine in cigarettes that causes cancer.

Many mistakenly think nicotine causes cancer, rather than the smoke

Saturday 5 November 2005 - 7am PST

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Researchers from North Shore-LIJ surveyed 1,139 smoking patients (482 males and 657 females) involved in a tobacco cessation program to evaluate smoking perceptions between genders. Of the patients questioned, 71.9 percent of women and 59.4 percent of men believed nicotine causes cancer, while 75 percent of women and 64.5 percent of men admitted to worrying that smoking may give them cancer. More women (71.9 percent) than men (63.1 percent) reported smoking "light cigarettes," believing them to be less harmful.

"People smoke to get the addictive drug, nicotine, but the drug alone does not cause cancer. The delivery system, a cigarette full of hundreds of toxic chemicals that are inhaled along with nicotine, does," said Ms. Reichert. "This misinformation leads many smokers to smoke 'light' cigarettes, thinking they will inhale less nicotine. In reality, smokers tend to smoke more light cigarettes and inhale more deeply to get nicotine from light cigarettes, resulting in a significant amount of harmful chemicals being inhaled." ...emphasis added
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/33023.php

In my opinion the gun control advocates have many good arguments on their side to promote stronger gun control but they often lie and distort the facts about the issue and firearms to garner support for their cause from the less firearm knowledgeable people in our society.

For example it is not uncommon to read that we need another assault weapons ban because the average citizen can walk into a Walmart or a Mom and Pop gun store and buy the same assault rifles common used by military forces across the world. Gun control advocate ignore the fact that true military assault rifles are either fully automatic or bust fire while the rifles sold in Walmart or most local gun stores are semi-automatic. (To foster this misconception that true military rifles can easily be bought everywhere by everybody, I have watched on my TV a fully automatic rifle being fired on the range while the narrator stated that there was no reason for the average citizen to be allowed to own such a firearm.)

I could go on at point out more examples of how gun control advocates and e-cig control advocates use the same tactics. But that might be a better topic for another discussion elsewhere on DU.

To me comparing e-cigs to real cigarettes is a lot like comparing a real firearm to a BB gun. If it were possible to convince many of those who own firearms for target shooting to sell them and buy BB guns or pellet rifles, we would live in a safer society. (As I stated, I do realize that gun control advocates have many good factual and truthful arguments to support their position.) If more people stop smoking real cigarettes and instead smoke e-cigs, I predict cancer deaths and deaths due to cardiovascular disease will drop significantly.

The effort to ban e-cigs seems to me to be a lot like an effort to ban the sale of all BB guns or pellet rifles. There may indeed be some danger to both e-cigs and BB guns but it is far less than the health risk of smoking real cigarettes or the dangers involved in owning real firearms.

I will not be at all surprised if some government funded research "proves" the e-cigs are dangerous. It will merely remind me of all the government sponsored research that proved beyond all doubt that
marijuana has absolutely no medical value.