"The standard of consent for terms of service is low. But that “consent” is a legal fiction, designed to facilitate online interactions. (See and ’s books for more.) It’s very different from informed consent, the ethical and legal standard for human subjects research (HSR). The Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects, a/k/a the , requires that informed consent include:

In a submitted to the FDA, Dr. Stan Glantz has asserted that in terms of pulmonary effects, the use of electronic cigarettes may not be any less hazardous than smoking conventional cigarettes.

As currently proposed, the deeming regulations will require virtually every e-cigarette product on the market to submit a pre-market review application, in which the company must demonstrate that the introduction of the product into the market is beneficial for the public's health. The data required to demonstrate this is complex, as it requires a consideration of not only the benefits of the product to intended users (adult smokers), but also the consequences of the product's availability in the market to others, such as nonsmokers and youth. The complexity and burden of this requirement makes it unfeasible for most e-cigarette companies, which are small and do not have adequate resources for such an undertaking. The result would be to pull tens of thousands of products from the market and constrict the market severely. In addition, it would create an absolute bureaucratic, nightmarish mess.

On his wonderful science and advocacy , tobacco control practitioner and former director of Action on Smoking and Health (ASH-UK) Clive Bates issues a : an open letter to Stan Glantz urging him to discontinue the misrepresentation of his research to spread false and unsupported information about electronic cigarettes being a gateway to cigarette smoking.

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