First, he cites the JAMA Pediatrics article in which Glantz and Dutra conclude that electronic cigarettes are exaggerating, rather than ameliorating smoking among youth. Clive writes: "somehow you have managed to position this study as showing there is a gateway from e-cigarette use to smoking. NOTHING in the study or the underlying data suggests this. You would need information on how smoking, e-cigarette use and abstinence evolved over time to test these hypotheses, but your study does not have that."

Incidentally, the Reynolds/Lorillard lawsuit seeks to have Drs. Benowitz, Henningfield, and Samet dismissed from the FDA's TPSAC (Tobacco Product Scientific Advisory Committee) panel because of these conflicts of interest. While these conflicts do not preclude the participation of these scientists as authors of the Surgeon General's report, they absolutely must be disclosed to the public.

Last week, three Democratic lawmakers -- Rep. Henry A. Waxman (CA), Sen. Tom Harkin (IA), and Rep. Peter Welch (VT) -- sent a to the Attorneys General in their states requesting that the AGs declare that electronic cigarettes fall under the terms of the Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) signed in 1998 with the tobacco companies.

the current e-cigarettes on the market operate with ‘no tobacco, smoke, or combustion’ [3]. Furthermore, although traces of tobacco-specific nitrosamines (TSNAs) have been found in some e-cigarettes, similar traces of TSNAs are present in licensed NRTs [4–7]. This mislabelling is exacerbated by national and international regulations including e-cigarettes in their tobacco regulations or proposing to do so."

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