But we know this is not the case because in journal articles published by many of the report authors, they have acknowledged multiple conflicts of interest with Big Pharma.

In other words, despite acknowledging that they cannot tell from their study whether e-cigarette use precedes smoking or whether smoking precedes e-cigarette use, they nonetheless draw the conclusion that e-cigarette use precedes smoking.

Is this really the kind of pure scientific expertise - unclouded by any ideological or political concerns - that we want to be making the critical decisions about how to regulate tobacco products which are killing hundreds of thousands of Americans each year?

The rest of the story is nicely summarized by Jacob Sullum in a Reason.com . He concludes:

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