You may wonder why I am calling these people - smokers who have quit smoking via electronic cigarettes - anecdotes.

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:

It shouldn't take a rocket toxicologist to figure out that electronic cigarettes - which contain no tobacco - have immense benefits over traditional tobacco products. It shouldn't take a rocket epidemiologist to figure out that eliminating almost all of the more than 10,000 chemicals and 60+ carcinogens in cigarettes is going to result in a safer product. And anyone who has read the numerous laboratory, toxicology, and clinical studies of electronic cigarettes and tobacco cigarettes should understand that vaping is much safer than smoking.

One of the key examples in question is a on the Cato Institute site in which Jacob Grier makes a number of insightful comments that are supportive of electronic cigarettes.

The CDC's statement is wrong on its face. If there is reputable evidence from former smokers that e-cigarettes helped them quit smoking, then there is indeed conclusive scientific evidence that e-cigarettes "can work" as a cessation aid.

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