I can only hope that science will be restored to its rightful place in tobacco control and public health. But right now, I am not at all optimistic.

But that wasn't the intent of Congress, or of the anti-smoking groups which supported the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. The intent was to gain a political victory by making it look like they were doing something to protect the public's health, when in truth, they weren't actually doing anything to make cigarettes safer. If anything, they were putting obstacles in the way of transforming the tobacco market into one that is safer.

As I point out in the piece, the CDC is partly responsible for the backlash against e-cigarettes because it publicly concluded that e-cigarettes are a gateway to smoking:

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