More Stop-Smoking Counter-Measures
There is more and more public clamor against the FDA's unscientific and disingenuous press conference on e-cigarettes, sending messages to e-cigarette users to stop smoking the device and revert to the conventional cigarettes.
The FDA message was loud and clear that vapers or e-cigarette users were scared to death, and are seriously considering returning to their old habits.
Not only that, doctors, too, lost their sense of perspective. A New York University Langone Medical Center pulmonologist was quoted in the Los Angeles Times discouraging the use of e-cigarettes for being toxic, having the FDA announcement in mind.
The lack of objectivity in the FDA presentation also caused the American Lung Association to call for the banning of e-cigarettes because of carcinogenic elements found in e-cigarette cartridges.
The biased and incomplete report of the FDA turned out to be more of an advocacy, or a public relations stunt than a meaningful release of important scientific information that changes the way consumers use products such as e-cigarettes. In so doing, the FDA failed to act as a reliable scientific federal agency.
And that's only half of the story.
The rest of the story is that, worse, the FDA acted more like a pro-smoking group, or 'wolf in sheep's clothing' in cahoots with other anti-smoking groups, while tobacco companies need not say a word.
As the over 100,000 vapers also represent former cigarette smokers, this figure translates into revenue which would otherwise have been for traditional cigarettes.
By urging e-cigarette smokers to stop vaping, the FDA and the anti-smoking groups are in effect telling vapers to revert to analog cigarettes which have been proven time and again to cause over 400,000 deaths annually all over the country.
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