Last Wednesday, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Technology held a hearing on the marketing of electronic cigarettes. Several senators, including Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), Barbara Boxer (D-CA), and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) harshly attacked the two electronic cigarette company executives who testified before the committee, calling them liars who are doing harm to the public and comparing them to the Big Tobacco executives of the past.

It's not clear to me why researchers who oppose electronic cigarettes are so anxious to condemn these products that they are willing to use inappropriate research designs to fulfill such an aim.

"“There’s so much we don’t yet know about e-cigarettes,” said Douglas Tipperman, M.S.W., a public health advisor at SAMHSA. “They are not harmless. We don’t know the health impact at the individual or the population level.”

But other health academics have disagreed and have written to the World Health Organisation describing e-cigarettes as potentially life-saving.

I am not aware of any other federal law or regulation that prohibits companies from telling consumers the truth about their products as it relates to the primary benefit of the product. Hopefully, the FDA will see the error in its proposal and will reconsider its decision to subject electronic cigarettes to the provisions of section 911.

"Only 1.8% of children are regular users; 90% of regular or occasional users are young people who are already smokers or ex-smokers; 91% of young people have not tried an electronic cigarette even once; and this is despite the fact that over 80% of young people are now aware of e-cigarettes (up from under 70% in 2013)."

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