The CDC is even worse. It actually acknowledges the existence of these former smokers, but still argues that there is no evidence that electronic cigarettes have helped any smokers quit.

Shockingly, no one stopped the experiment. That includes Luther Terry. The rest of the story is that Dr. Terry, who presided over the Tuskegee Experiment from 1961 to 1965, failed to stop the study, even though penicillin had been available for the past 20 years.

Moreover, he fails to report that emergency rooms across the nation have also been reporting suicides and attempted suicides from the use of Chantix.

Moreover, several former members (and one current member) of the FDA's Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee have (or have had) financial conflicts of interest with Big Pharma, and thus are not in a position to offer opinions about national tobacco product regulation in the context of this expert advisory panel.

According to an at Time.com: "In a hearing Wednesday afternoon that harkened back to the famous congressional Big Tobacco hearings two decades ago, Senators on the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee eviscerated electronic cigarette executives Jason Healy, CEO of blu eCigs (owned by tobacco company Lorillard), and Craig Weiss, CEO of NJOY, leaders of the two leading e-cig brands."

Interestingly, it is also possible that electronic cigarettes could have exactly the opposite effect. It is possible that some youths who might have initiated smoking will instead try electronic cigarettes. Further, it is plausible that after using electronic cigarettes, youth may be much less likely to progress to cigarette smoking because compared to the taste and sensation of vaping, the experience of cigarette smoking will not be appealing.

The rest of the story is that by lying to thepublic, Senator Blumenthal has introduced politics into the debate anddemonstrated that Congress remains clearly in touch with political motives, notscience-based public health ones.

But we know this is not the case because in journal articles published by many of the report authors, they have acknowledged multiple conflicts of interest with Big Pharma.

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