Think of it this way: Individual X has smoked 2 packs per day for 30 years. She has tried, unsuccessfully, to quit smoking using the nicotine patch and nicotine gum. Finally, she has successfully quit smoking using electronic cigarettes.

One of the main criticisms of electronic cigarettes leveled by its opponents in the tobacco control movement is that there are many dual users of e-cigarettes and tobacco cigarettes and that this has adverse public health consequences.

This is an ironic reversal from the past, where it was the public health groups sending the anti-smoking messages and the tobacco industry which was undermining those anti-smoking messages.

I summarize my argument as follows: "In recent years, the tobacco control movement has squandered the opportunity to reduce smoking-related disease and death. Instead of continued progress, the tobacco control movement has largely been co-opted by a bureaucracy of national organizations that seem more concerned about bolstering their funding streams than fighting the tobacco industry. Both the government and the national tobacco control organizations have largely abandoned the fight against the tobacco industry and smoking, and instead have dedicated themselves to seeking funding for research or policy that makes little or no further contribution to the protection of the public’s health."

According to an at Time.com: "In a hearing Wednesday afternoon that harkened back to the famous congressional Big Tobacco hearings two decades ago, Senators on the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee eviscerated electronic cigarette executives Jason Healy, CEO of blu eCigs (owned by tobacco company Lorillard), and Craig Weiss, CEO of NJOY, leaders of the two leading e-cig brands."

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