Adding to the long list of tobacco control practitioners who have publicly declared that smoking may be no more harmful than vaping - which involves no tobacco and no combustion - a South Carolina respiratory therapist is telling patients that they should not quit smoking using electronic cigarettes because these devices may be more dangerous than tobacco cigarettes, which kills more than 400,000 Americans each year.

The Rest of the Story has that the Mayo Clinic has lied to the American public by telling them that absolutely no studies have examined the health effects of electronic cigarettes and that doctors have no way of assessing the impact of this product, and has ordered the Mayo Clinic to make this statement. Here is the truth:

Despite strong evidence that vaping is much safer than smoking, that e-cigarettes do not contain any tobacco or involve any combustion, that tens of thousands of smokers are successfully using these products to quit smoking or cut down substantially on the amount they smoke, and that smokers with obstructive lung disease who switch to electronic cigarettes experience and immediate improvement in their respiratory symptoms, it appears that the American College of Chest Physicians and its partner organizations in FIRS would rather see tens of thousands of vapers return to cigarette smoking than to maintain a much healthier, smoke-free or greatly smoke-reduced lifestyle.

I argued as follows:

While I agree with Stan on virtually every aspect of the regulation of cigarette marketing, we part ways when he advocates the suppression of the truth.

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