The reason I resigned from the ANR Executive Board was that the organization told me that it placed a higher value on its political objectives than on scientific integrity. This story illustrates that ANR continues to operate on this unethical strategy.
In other words, the deeming regulations place an insurmountable obstacle in the way of new and innovative products. This is disastrous because it is new products which are essential to continue to drive the market forward. It is the new products which will be safer and more effective. It is the new products that are critical to allowing electronic cigarettes to some day seriously challenge or overtake the combustible market.
What makes the Citizens Medical Center policy particularly ugly is that they justify it by arguing that their patients don't want to see obese people people it doesn't fit with their "mental projection" of a healthcare professional. That is simply disgusting. The same thing could have been said years ago (or maybe today) about certain other groups, such as black health care workers, LGBT workers, or Jewish workers.
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