"“The majority of our patients are over 65, and they have expectations that cannot be ignored in terms of personal appearance,” hospital chief executive David Brown said in an interview. “We have the ability as an employer to characterize our process and to have a policy that says what’s best for our business and for our patients.” Employment lawyers say Citizens Medical Center’s hiring policy isn’t against the law. Only the state of Michigan and six U.S. cities — including San Francisco and Washington, D.C. — ban discrimination against the overweight in hiring."

The benefits of electronic cigarettes are clear: they help many smokers to quit smoking. They are especially advantageous to smokers who have failed to quit using traditional methods. Taking these products off the market is essentially condemning many smokers to continued smoking by taking away a viable option for them to try to kick the addiction.

In psychology, this phenomenon is known as . A 2010 Boston Globe describes this phenomenon and explains how when people are affected by this bias, they twist new facts that run counter to their position in order to fit with their pre-determined conclusions, rather than change their positions in line with the new information.

While most anti-smoking organizations continue to oppose electronic cigarettes, warning of the hypothetical risks of these products, new from the UK suggest that in real life, e-cigarettes are producing substantial public health benefits.

In an NPR , CDC director Dr. Thomas Frieden claimed that scientific evidence demonstrates that large numbers of ex-smokers are returning to the use of nicotine products by taking up vaping. He also claimed that electronic cigarettes are deterring smokers from quitting.

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