It is clear from the overall evidence that electronic cigarettes are not as risky as tobacco cigarettes in terms of acute effects on lung function. On this issue, Dr. Glantz's comment is simply wrong.

Yesterday, I that this month's issue of JAMA features a co-authored by Dr. Michael Fiore (from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health) which reviews the history of tobacco control in the 50 years since the release of the 1964 Surgeon General's report. Although the article discloses no conflicts of interest, I revealed that Dr. Fiore has a long and intensive history of financial conflicts of interest with the very pharmaceutical companies that manufacture smoking cessation drugs, which he recommends, in the article, be prescribed to every patient who smokes.

To be sure, the FDA should prohibit the marketing of electronic cigarettes to youth. But a total ban on electronic cigarette advertising would be throwing away the baby with the bath water.

In an published last week in the Los Angeles Times, CDC director Dr. Thomas Frieden was quoted as stating:

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