Monday's CNN Opinion page featured an on electronic cigarettes from Harold Wimmer, the president and CEO of the American Lung Association. In the piece, Wimmer argues that Big Tobacco companies are using electronic cigarettes to create "new nicotine addicts" and that they are enticing youth with flavors such as bubble gum and cotton candy.

1. Between 2003 and 2008, one of the authors performed consultation services for R.J. Reynolds and Lorillard and conducted research at his medical school which was funded by R.J. Reynolds, Brown & Williamson, and Liggett. The total annual amount of his consulting payments from Big Tobacco was as high as $40,000. While the amount of grant funding received from tobacco companies is not clear, one of the anti-smoking groups has documented that the level of funding in 2005 was $400,000 and in 2004 was $1 million.

The AHA provided recommendations for policy on the manufacturing, use and distribution of e-cigarettes in their report published on August 25th, 2014. Their policy stresses how they believe we as a society should move forward in the new and ever changing market of electronic nicotine delivery systems. Stressing the absolute importance of more research was one of the objects at the top of their list.

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