The Rest of the Story

As I found out when I simply proposed the rather benign, but crucial to science, idea of conducting a clinical trial to examine the effects of electronic cigarettes on smoking behavior (in comparison to the nicotine patch, a well-accepted standard), there is very little room for balanced, objective thinking in the current tobacco control/harm reduction environment. The simple proposal to conduct such a crucial study brought out personal attacks and profound criticism. This despite the fact that every single electronic cigarette company representative I talked to about the proposal felt that the study was critical and needs to be conducted. There was no opposition to conducting sound science among the electronic cigarette companies. All the opposition came from the harm reduction "community."

While the attacks were mostly personal, and not worthy of expounding here, the shred of substance was that more recent studies which compared lung cancer risks of successive cohorts of smokers have found increased risk among more recent cohorts. From these studies, the Surgeon General's report - and these co-authors - conclude that filters must convey an increased risk of cancer.

Let's just take three of the Surgeon General's report authors alone (Dr. Neal Benowitz, Dr. Jack Henningfield, and Dr. Jonathan Samet). According to a D.C. District Court filed by R.J. Reynolds and Lorillard:

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