As I yesterday, U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and a number of hiscolleagues are pushing for a ban on flavored electronic cigarettes, which theysay is necessary to protect kids from addiction to nicotine. Senator Blumenthalis supporting his proposal by purporting to cite scientific evidence thatelectronic cigarettes are a gateway to a lifetime of addiction to cigarettesmoking.

Another recent study published late May in the Addiction Journal showed that the e-vapor produced in electronic cigarettes “can contain some of the toxinspresent in tobacco smoke, but at levels which are much lower.” This study conducted by 5 researchers, 2 of which were linked to a Federal Drug Administration tobacco panel, used approximately 81 different studies during its overall review. In conjunction, a scientific review on e-cigs from theconcluded with the comparison of conventional cigarettes, claiming that they are less likely to be as harmful. Peter Hajek of Londons Queen Mary University states “the evidence we currently have is clear: e-cigarettes should be allowed to compete against conventional cigarettes in the marketplace. Health care professionals may advise smokers who are unwilling to cease nicotine use to switch to e-cigarettes. Smokers who have not managed to stop with current treatments may also benefit from switching to e-cigarettes.”

The specific financial interests of the co-authors, according to the anti-smoking groups are:

3. "With regard to the seven PAH classified as probable carcinogens by the IARC, the concentrations increased on average by 20% from 122.8 ng/m3 (control) to 147.3 + 26.2 ng/m3."

Instead, in 2014, it is the electronic cigarette companies which are sending the anti-smoking messages and the health groups which are undermining those messages.

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