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.

In an published early this week in the Los Angeles Times, CDC director Dr. Thomas Frieden issues a blistering attack on electronic cigarettes. In the article, he compares the damage and destruction caused by tobacco cigarettes with e-cigarettes, suggesting that another generation of our kids is going to become addicted to smoking because of e-cigarettes. He argues that the electronic cigarette industry is harming "hundreds of thousands of children."

1. The financial conflicts of interest involved in these commentaries were not with tobacco companies, but with pharmaceutical companies. Every instance where "tobacco company" appears should be replaced with "pharmaceutical company," and "Big Tobacco" should be replaced with "Big Pharma." The article errantly refers to R.J. Reynolds, Lorillard, Brown & Williamson, Star Scientific, U.S. Tobacco, Liggett, and Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company. These companies should have been listed as Elan Pharmaceutical, SmithKline Beecham, Glaxo Wellcome, GlaxoSmithKline, Nabi Biopharmaceuticals, Pfizer, Sanofi-Synthelabo, sanofi-aventis, Lederle, Ciba-Geigy, McNeil Consumer Products, and Pharmacia. We apologize for any inconvenience these errors may have caused.

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