According to CDC Director Dr. Thomas Frieden, the thousands of smokers who have quit smoking via electronic cigarettes are nothing but anecdotes. As Dr. Frieden told the Los Angeles Times in , referring to smokers who have quit using e-cigarettes: "the plural of anecdote is not data."

Previously, there was a significant history of tobacco-funded researchers failing to disclose their conflicts of interest. By now doing the same thing, we are blurring the distinction. Now, the public is going to question the integrity of our research, not just that conducted by or supported by the tobacco companies.

The Business Standard and Medical Xpress reporters were not the only ones to get this message from the study and its authors. According to an on the CBS Atlanta web site: "Exposure to surfaces and objects that have been saturated in cigarette smoke, labeled as “third-hand smoke,” may be as deadly as smoking the cigarette itself."

Stated another way, Dr. Glantz is cautioning the FDA against assuming that e-cigarettes are safer than conventional cigarettes in terms of their effects on lung function.

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